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  • "Very droll," I said.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • "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
  • 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)
  • "Uh-huh," Aria said drolly, watching him scamper away, his boxers slowly sliding down to reveal his pale, defined-from-running butt.†  (source)
  • One, droller than the rest, threw a ball of horse manure.†  (source)
  • "Eh, man," said I, drolling with him a little, "you're very ingenious!†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • How droll!†  (source)
  • WAGNER 'Tis the absurdest, drollest beast.†  (source)
  • "Imagine my surprise," Jess added drolly, "when I was her last resort."†  (source)
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