humoring
幽默,幽默感,幽默的,幽默风趣
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Definitions
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- : a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- : the faculty of perceiving what is amusing or comical: He is completely without humor.
- : an instance of being or attempting to be comical or amusing; something humorous: The humor in his joke eluded the audience.
- : the faculty of expressing the amusing or comical: The author's humor came across better in the book than in the movie.
- : comical writing or talk in general; comical books, skits, plays, etc.
- : humors, peculiar features; oddities; quirks: humors of life.
- : mental disposition or temperament.
- : a temporary mood or frame of mind: The boss is in a bad humor today.
- : a capricious or freakish inclination; whim or caprice; odd trait.
- : one of the four elemental fluids of the body, blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile, regarded as determining, by their relative proportions, a person's physical and mental constitution.
- : any animal or plant fluid, whether natural or morbid, as the blood or lymph.
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- : to comply with the humor or mood of in order to soothe or make content or more agreeable: to humor a child.
- : to adapt or accommodate oneself to.
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Examples
The essayist finds humor, absurdity and delight in life’s experiences.
They’re stories that wrap you in charm and good humor, and a sense of the resilience that undergirds Winspear’s tale.
No one has ever accused the marathon gods of not having a sense of humor.
He and his wife — Hillary, also a music teacher — have always embraced the humor of their name.
She has a great sense of humor and makes an excellent Korean tofu rice bowl.
“Go on then,” she said, as if humoring a grating younger sibling.
We had but one idea, and that was to get away, though we could not forbear humoring our curiosity by peeping out upon the village.
"I have heard very strange stories about the man" said Alice very solemnly, as if humoring the ignorant old woman's apprehensions.
Yet he was tactful with the beasts, and given to humoring their moods as far as convenient without ever letting them guess it.
She'd sweat and stumble after a few minutes run, no amount of dieting, humoring or whipping affected her.
He wanted sore to sit up again, but while I made show of humoring him, and getting ready, he dropped off.