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droll

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1. droll - Noun

2. droll - Adjective

3. droll - Verb

5. droll - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange.

One whose practice it is to raise mirth by odd tricks; a jester; a buffoon; a merry-andrew.

Something exhibited to raise mirth or sport, as a puppet, a farce, and the like.

To jest; to play the buffoon.

To lead or influence by jest or trick; to banter or jest; to cajole.

To make a jest of; to set in a comical light.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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a droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor Source: Internet

About the same time, he began to appear as a lecturer and, by his droll and eccentric humor, attracted large audiences. Source: Internet

At the time of his death in 1971, The New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry". citation Nash wrote over 500 pieces of comic verse. Source: Internet

Campbell's manly, mock-heroic posturing is perfectly in keeping with the director's droll outlook." citation Desson Howe, in this review for The Washington Post praised the film's style: "Bill Pope's cinematography is gymnastic and appropriately frenetic. Source: Internet

But Cabell's signature droll style is clearly in evidence, and in later printings each book would bear a characteristically Cabellian subtitle: A Comedy of Purse-Strings, A Comedy of Shirking, and A Comedy of Limitations, respectively. Source: Internet

One meaning is "amusing, jocular, droll" and the other meaning is "odd, quirky, peculiar". Source: Internet

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