A comic incident or series of incidents.
A quaint and amusing jest.
1 The piccolo, in highest treble, inverts the second melody, in impertinent drollery .
2 The villagers gathered to see the city folks pursue their mad drollery .
3 The admirable drollery in Congreve about Lady Froth's verses on her coachman-
4 This is a little piece of drollery that I thought of myself.
5 Action rhymes, by reason of their practical drollery , never fail to amuse.
6 I can't help loving that man, for all his drollery and waggishness.
7 Everybody felt better for this touch of drollery except the captain.
8 This is what makes Sancho Panza's drollery the despair of the conscientious translator.
9 Richard Wagner's music is not famous for its hilarity and drollery .
10 The old man suddenly smiled at him, all quaint drollery again.
11 Boldness, drollery , dramatic spirit, force, and spontaneous satire characterize both artists.
12 The drollery in the voice was more touching than amusing.
13 But all yield in grim drollery to the last given:-
14 Of all the men I have encountered, he was the surest fund of drollery .
15 Teddy did the same, and a great roar was the reward of their drollery .
16 There was a suspicion of drollery in his reproachful tones.
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