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Significados de drollery en inglés

portugués
comédia
catalán
anècdota
español
anécdota

A comic incident or series of incidents.

anécdota
catalán
humorada
español
payasada

A quaint and amusing jest.

payasada
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Examples for "waggery"
Examples for "waggery"
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She did not smile; perhaps she felt such an approach to waggery unworthy of him.
Bertram Cope's Year
2
One can fancy the composer's amusement at this highly-imaginative interpretation of his harmless bit of waggery.
Haydn
3
The clown will laugh at a waggery, and the gentleman only at a stroke of delicate conceit.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 05 / ...
4
Insolence made use of it to give offence; ignorance, to avoid exposing itself; and waggery, to create laughter.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1
5
With the waggery that cropped up at the most unexpected times, he turned to George with the question:
Deerfoot in The Mountains
Uso de drollery en inglés
1
The piccolo, in highest treble, inverts the second melody, in impertinent drollery.
Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies
2
The villagers gathered to see the city folks pursue their mad drollery.
The Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four Million
3
The admirable drollery in Congreve about Lady Froth's verses on her coachman-
Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — ...
4
This is a little piece of drollery that I thought of myself.
Remarks
5
Action rhymes, by reason of their practical drollery, never fail to amuse.
Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children'...
6
I can't help loving that man, for all his drollery and waggishness.
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
7
Everybody felt better for this touch of drollery except the captain.
The Last Shot
8
This is what makes Sancho Panza's drollery the despair of the conscientious translator.
Don Quixote
9
Richard Wagner's music is not famous for its hilarity and drollery.
Radio NZ
10
The old man suddenly smiled at him, all quaint drollery again.
Hillsboro People
11
Boldness, drollery, dramatic spirit, force, and spontaneous satire characterize both artists.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
12
The drollery in the voice was more touching than amusing.
The Place Beyond the Winds
13
But all yield in grim drollery to the last given:-
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862
14
Of all the men I have encountered, he was the surest fund of drollery.
An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
15
Teddy did the same, and a great roar was the reward of their drollery.
The Circus Boys in Dixie Land; Or, Winning the Plaudits of the S...
16
There was a suspicion of drollery in his reproachful tones.
The Grey Cloak
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