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humorous
a. funny, or making someone laugh
Classic Sentence: (120 in 9 pages)
1 They were affectionate, humorous, discursive, but not the letters of a lover.
2 He came in, his ears red from the cold, his pinkish hair awry, and stood looking down at her, a faintly humorous smile on his lips.
3 She took this in what seemed the only possible way, with a laugh intended to sink the question itself in his humorous treatment of it.
4 Carol was shuddering with the vicarious shame which sensitive people feel when they listen to an "elocutionist" being humorous, or to a precocious child publicly doing badly what no child should do at all.
5 There was also a humorous office-boy.
6 Carol was left to Dave, who tried to entertain her with humorous accounts of Ella Stowbody's fondness for chocolate peppermints.
7 He was a bulky, gauche, noisy, humorous man, with narrow eyes, a rustic complexion, large red hands, and brilliant clothes.
8 Look now at Stubb; a man who from his humorous, deliberate coolness and equanimity in the direst emergencies, was specially qualified to excel in pitchpoling.
9 Tranquilly permitting these irregular cursings to evaporate, Stubb then in a plain, business-like, but still half humorous manner, cursed Pip officially; and that done, unofficially gave him much wholesome advice.
10 Usually, when Lena referred to her life in the country at all, she dismissed it with a single remark, humorous or mildly cynical.
11 He looked like a humorous philosopher who had hitched up one shoulder under the burdens of life, and gone on his way having a good time when he could.
12 He seemed to hear some one make a humorous remark in a low tone.
13 I smiled at the notion; it seemed to me at the time to be humorous; and I made my preparations with the most studious care.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
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14 Clifford was really clever at that slightly humorous analysis of people and motives which leaves everything in bits at the end.
15 The reddleman vented a low humorous laugh when he saw his adversary return with these.
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1 An exuberant player with attractive tones on both tenor and alto, Red Holloway is also a humorous blues singer.
2 Leavening his decisions with humorous, down-to-earth anecdotes, Judge Walker was not at all the pedantic legal scholar.
3 What I find so humorous is that Obama has said what you guys have WANTED TO HEAR since he announced his presidency in Jan 2007.
4 His humorous remark made everyone laugh.
5 John Lennon found time to publish two books of his humorous prose.
6 He has his own brand of humor and always brings laugh for us.
7 I like to give names that either illustrate the character or are wildly misappropriate for the sake of humor.
8 Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it.
9 His humor lacked the light touch; his jokes were always ponderous.
10 He was in an expansive humor, cheerfully urging his guests to join in the Christmas feast.
11 He'd been slim with a full head of wavy Black-Irish hair and a certain flair for fashion and humor.
12 The sardonic humor of nightclub comedians who satirize or ridicule patrons in the audience strikes some people as amusing and others as rude.
13 The humor of cartoonist Gary Trudeau often is satirical; through the comments of the Doonesbury characters, Trudeau ridicules political corruption and folly.
14 Even if you're only a freshman, it's no compliment to be told your humor is sophomoric.
15 I attack politicians with the one weapon they don't have, a sense of humor.