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noun

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Recent Examples of droll
Adjective
There are graphic novels with droll, sardonic dialogue. Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2025 There’s something about how Will Forte rolls with that name that’s quite droll. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
But unlike that 1996 Robert Rodriguez-Quentin Tarantino joint, Sinners isn’t winking at the audience from behind grotesque violence and droll B-movie tropes. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Apr. 2025 Bailey, deft and playful, chooses to be his own antic, a droll and often hostile jester. Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for droll
Recent Examples of Synonyms for droll
Adjective
  • Earlier this week, on Monday, June 9, Matthew posted about their 13th wedding anniversary in an equally humorous way.
    Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 13 June 2025
  • And fans of the franchise will get a kick out of the humorous, quirky dynamic between the entire group of younger Vikings in training.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • For one thing, the father and two of the older brothers of future late-night talk-show host and comedian Stephen Colbert were killed in the crash.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 18 June 2025
  • The comedian and actor took to Instagram on Tuesday (June 17) to announce the arrival of his newborn son with fiancée Rada Darling.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • The narrative twist: the story is driven not by the characters themselves but by eight distinct emotions in their minds — comedic, romantic, bizarre, and rational.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 June 2025
  • Kroll says one of the most important things was to make sure that every story was handled in a mindful and earnest way, while still approaching the situation in a comedic sense.
    Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • Ramsey’s memoir is a moving, sometimes funny story about destruction, change and rebirth, told by a woman tempered by fire.
    Laurie Hertzel, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
  • Roman is my kind of Virgil—chatty, funny, forgiving, sharp.
    Marina Harss, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • Sharina Martin is Renee, an editor at the print magazine version of HGTV who buys into the whole Diane experience, professionally and personally, and does it with a sharp amusing stylishness.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2025
  • In an amusing send-up of Hollywood's penchant for making reboot characters related to original franchise players, the trailers also introduce children of George Kennedy's Ed Hocken and Simpson's Nordberg, the former of which is played by Paul Water Hauser.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • Things get gory, but the blocky voxel look allows the game to lean into comical territory.
    Simon Hill, Wired News, 13 June 2025
  • In 1986, Mahaffey appeared in the six-hour comical miniseries Fresno opposite Carol Burnett and in the dramatic film Women of Valor, which followed a group of women in the Philippines during World War II.
    Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
Adjective
  • Even in this rather dark conclusion, the animator’s comic sensibilities shine through, in the old school ‘X’s replacing the mouse’s eyes in death.
    Kambole Campbell, Variety, 13 June 2025
  • All of it paints a vivid word-portrait of comic dignity.
    A.O. Scott, New York Times, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • Their black metal frames paired with wood tops are ideal for entertaining and can be used together or separately.
    Jené Luciani Sena may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom., FOXNews.com, 20 June 2025
  • The book is an informative, entertaining account of what can happen when conservation efforts succeed.
    Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 18 June 2025

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“Droll.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/droll. Accessed 25 Jun. 2025.

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