All 7 Uses of
droll
in
Sense and Sensibility
- He is so droll!†
Chpt 20droll = comical in an unusual way
- "Mr. Palmer is so droll!" said she, in a whisper, to Elinor.†
Chpt 20
- There now; you see how droll he is.†
Chpt 20 *
- Sometimes he won't speak to me for half a day together, and then he comes out with something so droll—all about any thing in the world.†
Chpt 20
- I forget what it was now, but it was something so droll!†
Chpt 26
- After they had been assembled about an hour, Mr. Palmer sauntered towards the Miss Dashwoods to express his surprise on seeing them in town, though Colonel Brandon had been first informed of their arrival at his house, and he had himself said something very droll on hearing that they were to come.†
Chpt 27
- "It would be something remarkable, now," he continued, "something droll, if Fanny should have a brother and I a sister settling at the same time.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
comical in an unusual way -- often clever and understated