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Synonyms for droll

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comical in an odd or whimsical manner

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The primitive garb worn by this droll left all his nether man exposed to the biting blasts of the mountains.
I introduced David, who offered his hand stiffly, but Joey, instead of taking it, put out his tongue and waggled it, and this was so droll that David had again to save himself by clapping his hand over his mouth.
Sight-seeing from morning till night, stopping for nice lunches in the gay cafes, and meeting with all sorts of droll adventures.
"As to Porthos, that is certainly droll; but I am not the less a giddy fool.
"A droll way of showing your affliction." The duke meant to say "affection."
Do you call that nothing?" He pronounced avenue--EVENUE, and nothing--NOTHINK, so droll; and he had a Mr.
Rebecca is a droll funny creature, to be sure; and those descriptions of the poor lady weeping for the loss of her beauty, and the gentleman "with hay-coloured whiskers and straw-coloured hair," are very smart, doubtless, and show a great knowledge of the world.
She showed it step by step and room by room and secret by secret, with droll, delightful, childish talk about it and with the result, in half an hour, of our becoming immense friends.
He went in quest of sympathy - in quest of that droll article that we all suppose ourselves to want when in a strait, and have agreed to call advice; and he went, besides, with vague but rather splendid expectations of relief.
In the midst of the gloom of the spiral staircase, he elbowed something which drew aside with a growl; he took it for granted that it was Quasimodo, and it struck him as so droll that he descended the remainder of the staircase holding his sides with laughter.
"How very droll you will look!--like a gentleman in an old fashion-book."
Summary: A droll, beguiling story about a lecturer's journey across Japan
Saskia Chan as Leila's droll mate, Deniz, is the most likely breakout character, combining a life of dating women with working in the family shop and fielding questions from her mum about potential husbands.
Dear nephew of Jennifer (Thomas) Scott, Sherry (Joe) Droll, Terry Bigos and Scott Bigos.
He is tirelessly droll and inexhaustible in a part once filled by the equally droll Brian Conley.