sense of humor
noun phrase
: a personality that gives someone the ability to say funny things and see the funny side of things
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Blackwood’s sense of humor has followed him from New Jersey to San Jose and now Colorado 10 days after Wedgewood.
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Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 19 Jan. 2025
Hatch emerged as the runaway star, with viewers falling in love with him for the same reason that local museum visitors have for decades past: his sense of humor, wit and clear passion for the tradition of printmaking.
—Jennah Pendleton, Sacramento Bee, 17 Jan. 2025
Compared with the recent boom of espionage series subverting the traditionally self-serious genre — Slow Horses’s lovable losers, Black Doves’s anarchic sense of humor, The Day of the Jackal’s soap-opera goofiness — this preoccupation seems damn near old-fashioned.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
My image of him is this guy with a sly smile, a sort of creative, whimsical character [with] a wry sense of humor.
—Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2025
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Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 19 Jan. 2025
Hatch emerged as the runaway star, with viewers falling in love with him for the same reason that local museum visitors have for decades past: his sense of humor, wit and clear passion for the tradition of printmaking.
—Jennah Pendleton, Sacramento Bee, 17 Jan. 2025
Compared with the recent boom of espionage series subverting the traditionally self-serious genre — Slow Horses’s lovable losers, Black Doves’s anarchic sense of humor, The Day of the Jackal’s soap-opera goofiness — this preoccupation seems damn near old-fashioned.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
My image of him is this guy with a sly smile, a sort of creative, whimsical character [with] a wry sense of humor.
—Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Sense of humor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sense%20of%20humor. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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