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| artiste |
(informal) someone specially skilled at something (often used with humor or contempt). [1/2 definitions] |
| biopic |
a biographical film or television program often containing scenes that are fictional in order to fill out the plot and add drama, humor, or suspense to make the real life subject compelling to an audience. |
| camaraderie |
friendship, good humor, and closeness among a group; comradeship. |
| comedienne |
a female entertainer who specializes in humor. [1/2 definitions] |
| corny |
(informal) of humor, lacking subtlety; obvious; trite. [1/2 definitions] |
| cross |
in an ill humor. [1/16 definitions] |
| crystalline lens |
a transparent, biconvex, lenslike body in the eye, between the iris and the vitreous humor, that focuses light on the retina. |
| distemper |
ill humor or irritability. [1/2 definitions] |
| dryness |
quiet, seemingly unconscious humor. [1/3 definitions] |
| farce |
a comedy that depends for its humor on quick and surprising turns of events and on exaggerated characters and situations, or the type of humor characteristic of such a play. [1/2 definitions] |
| grouch |
to express discontent and bad humor; grumble; sulk. [1/3 definitions] |
| humorist |
one who is esp. skilled and practiced in the use of humor in such activities as writing or acting. [2 definitions] |
| humorless |
combined form of humor. |
| humorous |
having the character or quality of humor; comical. [2 definitions] |
| irony |
a manner of using language so that it conveys a different or opposite meaning to that which is literally expressed in the words themselves. Irony is used in ordinary conversation and also as a literary technique, especially to express criticism or to produce humor or pathos. [1/3 definitions] |
| meme |
an online image or piece of language that catches the popular imagination and is repeated over and over in one form or another through social media, often becoming the basis of humor. [1/2 definitions] |
| miff |
a state of sulky bad humor; pique. [1/3 definitions] |
| mood1 |
a spell of bad humor, depression, or anger. [1/3 definitions] |
| nickname |
a name given to a person, place, or thing in place of or in addition to the proper name, to indicate humor, familiarity, or the character of the person, place, or thing. [1/3 definitions] |
| off-color |
improper or in poor taste, esp. of humor or innuendo dealing with sex. [1/3 definitions] |
| pepper |
to enliven by adding bits of humor or interesting information. [1/8 definitions] |
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