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Genre of drama and literature.

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          A comedy with serious elements or overtones.

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                Usage of tragicomedy in inglés
                1
                All the participants in this tragicomedy are now going through the motions.
                After the Rain : how the West lost the East
                2
                Her voice sounds parched on some couplets, adding to the song's tragicomedy.
                Reuters
                3
                Women survive the tragicomedy only by dint of their great capacity for play-acting.
                In Defense of Women
                4
                Quite suddenly the ghastly tragicomedy of the King's life came to an end.
                A History of the Four Georges, Volume II
                5
                Her own life she treated as a tragicomedy, but writing she treated seriously.
                All That Is
                6
                The tragicomedy of Change UK is principally one of hubris.
                The Guardian
                7
                If you had to boil it down, microtonally observed tragicomedy is her greatest strength.
                The Guardian
                8
                Perhaps Ruhl has written that unusual genre, a romantic tragicomedy.
                Reuters
                9
                Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen, 1668, is a tragicomedy.
                Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
                10
                David Ireland's tragicomedy Cyprus Avenue picked up the James Tait Black Prize for Drama.
                The Irish Times
                11
                His second novel, a 'mystical tragicomedy' called An Orchestra of Minorities, has just been published.
                Radio NZ
                12
                The defence attorneys representing the protesters described the court proceedings as a "tragicomedy".
                The Guardian
                13
                Maybe only Anthony Powell could do justice to the minor tragicomedy of Duncan Smith's career.
                The Guardian
                14
                Ruth crossed over to the dramatist of this tragicomedy and put a hand on his shoulder.
                The Ragged Edge
                15
                His last drama was Love Triumphant, a tragicomedy.
                Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
                16
                Instead, they have got government as rolling tragicomedy.
                The Guardian
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