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humorously

/hyoo-mer-uhs or, often, yoo-/US // ˈhyu mər əs or, often, ˈyu- //UK // (ˈhjuːmərəs) //

幽默地,幽默地讲,幽默地说,幽默的是

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by humor; funny; comical: a humorous anecdote.
    • : having or showing the faculty of humor; droll; facetious: a humorous person.

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Examples

  • His trip to a Taco Bell on Monday was initially meant to be just a darkly humorous lunch option.

  • The eagle-eyed West Virginia native is a humorous speaker, and there is nothing shy about the man who rose to become brigadier general.

  • You may even twist the knife by adding a friendly, open smile, as if to indicate how humorous it is that anyone could draw such a conclusion.

  • To “get” a joke or humorous situation, you need to be able to see the lighter side of things.

  • That means the agency has gone back to its previously created ads and cut out scenes of people in elevators or ride-sharing together or person-to-person delivery as well as changed the voiceover to be less humorous.

  • Writing about the experience, humorously, left him a favorite amongst both prisoners and their guards, an odd situation.

  • And here she is humorously reaffirming them as only she could in a farewell parliamentary debate.

  • At the end of the show, the two humorously announced that they were going to host their own talk show together.

  • Used as a humorously exaggerated formula of politeness when refusing food.

  • Of course, this requires knowing what one values, one expert humorously points out.

  • This trait in the man of the Midi is one that Daudet has brought out humorously in the Tartarin books.

  • I never had supposed him humorously vindictive; he was, and his apparently innocent mistakes almost turned my hair gray.

  • He turned half humorously towards the stenographer: "I fancy you understood long before Mr. Gilland did."

  • "Sure, she means to have her way with us as well as with Walter Butler," he said humorously.

  • Bliss especially suggested and emphasized a "humorous work—that is to say, a work humorously inclined."