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I appreciate her droll sense of humor.droll = unusual
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I can usually count on a droll tweet a week from her.droll = comical in an unusual way
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You ought to hear the droll names he gives the lads he trains.† (source)
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"Very droll," I said.† (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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"Great!" he said, bobbing instantly to the surface again, his wet hair plastered in droll bangs on his forehead.† (source)
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"How droll," the Librarian says, not sounding very amused.† (source)droll = comical in an unusual way
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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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"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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"Eh, man," said I, drolling with him a little, "you're very ingenious!† (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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WAGNER 'Tis the absurdest, drollest beast.† (source)
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"Imagine my surprise," Jess added drolly, "when I was her last resort."† (source)
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