drollery

Mike and Dave looked at each other with dark drollery.

"It was never a very good drollery anyhow," he said to no one in particular.

I'd like to show you some of its drolleries.

I wonder who the vampire stole that particular drollery from.

Anyway, these workers were welcome to a bit of rough-edged drollery.

A time like this was when a bit of drollery kept you sane, she amended.

If ever I tried to turn our talk to serious matters, he deflected my questions with his drollery.

But sadly, after all this drollery, our next target was untouchable.

Next, the drollery of an English comic brought forth mild laughter.

There's a real strain of Dutch drollery about him.

But even your drollery can hardly distract me tonight.

It may be held in check by drollery or pop craftsmanship, but it's never far below the surface.

When he wrote at all it was merely to set down some fanciful drolleries with no thought of publication.

I can't help loving that man, for all his drollery and waggishness.

His gift for drollery surfaces only occasionally, in highly subdued form.

"Thomas, what a fund of deep drollery you have!

For this reason they tend to be disproportionately amused when one of their number makes a joke, or even a small drollery.

She expected his usual drollery, or at least that glower he had so perfected.

It was a night of drollery suffused with a yearning for gentler days.

The accompanying graphics, which owe something to cartoon strips, add to the drollery.

He's serious, but with drollery around the edges.

I laughed at his drollery and he laughed, too.

His query was quietly put, his expression suddenly without drollery.

Though no sooner was any topic started, than by some drollery, which set every one a-laughing, he made them forget what had been said.

They were not men given to drollery.