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droll
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    "How droll," the Librarian says, not sounding very amused.†  (source)
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    "Great!" he said, bobbing instantly to the surface again, his wet hair plastered in droll bangs on his forehead.†  (source)
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    "Ah, very droll," said Master Erasmus.†  (source)
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    Unlike stone-faced Mr. Pavlikovsky he was quite talkative, full of jokes or anekdoty as he called them, which he told in a droll, rapid-fire monotone.†  (source)
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    WAGNER 'Tis the absurdest, drollest beast.†  (source)
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    "Uh-huh," Aria said drolly, watching him scamper away, his boxers slowly sliding down to reveal his pale, defined-from-running butt.†  (source)
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    One, droller than the rest, threw a ball of horse manure.†  (source)
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    'Never be concerned, child,' says she, going on in her drolling way; 'I have no murderers about me; I employ the best and the honestest nurses that can be had, and have as few children miscarry under their hands as there would if they were all nursed by mothers; we want neither care nor skill.'†  (source)
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    There's nothing in the living world like books on water-cures, deaths-of-a-thousand-slices, or pouring white-hot lava off castle walls on drolls and mountebanks.†  (source)
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    And in the course of the soliloquy, she even feels free to comment on the drollness of the course that events are taking ("Won't that be funny").†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    How droll!†  (source)
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    It seems the drollest thing to think of the four-and-twenty elders, or bishops, or whatever number they were, sitting with long faces and writing down such stuff.†  (source)
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    M. Verdurin had been wiser than he knew in not taking his pipe out of his mouth, for Cottard, having occasion to leave the room for a moment, murmured a witty euphemism which he had recently acquired and repeated now whenever he had to go to the place in question: "I must just go and see the Duc d'Aumale for a minute," so drolly, that M. Verdurin's cough began all over again.†  (source)
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