Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a mixture of seriousness and comicality.
- noun A professional singer of serio-comic songs; one who performs seriocomic rôles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a mixture of seriousness and sport; serious and comical.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective mixing the serious with the comic with comic predominating
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Examples
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Still have to see Talk to Me - I'd LOVE to see him do a serio-comic role like that.
Worth Watching - May 14: Don Cheadle in Traitor Trailer « FirstShowing.net 2008
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This triggers a succession of serio-comic events involving a plastic surgeon, former Big Fat Greek Wedding star Nia Vardalos, a drug lord's 'second-best assassin in the world,' etc.
Archive 2010-05-09 Bill Crider 2010
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Anyway, you should really follow Mac McClelland on Twitter, as she continues her serio-comic adventures in the Land Of The Sometimes Free Press.
BP's Media Clampdown Continues: Activist Hassled By Louisiana Police (VIDEO) 2010
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Both of them are serio-comic looks at the lives of real-life celebrities who played themselves, but only one of them was actually based on fact.
THE 2009 TOOBITS AWARDS (PART SEVEN) Toby O'B 2010
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The shining wet road of Wollheim's memoir came to mind for me because its serio-comic narrative of his emotional de-formation unexpectedly condenses a number of recurrent motifs in the autobiographical writings of
The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster 2008
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Anyway, you should really follow Mac McClelland on Twitter, as she continues her serio-comic adventures in the Land Of The Sometimes Free Press.
BP's Media Clampdown Continues: Activist Hassled By Louisiana Police (VIDEO) 2010
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The pretext for undertaking a war in Yemen in earnest is currently the serio-comic "attempted terrorist attack" by a young Nigerian national on a passenger airliner outside of Detroit on Christmas Day.
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The most fun you may not be having: FX's Terriers, a terrific serio-comic private-eye show airing on Wednesdays.
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The guy is obviously the preeminent serio-comic voice of our time, which is saying something given the stiff competition he faces in that category.
Randall Amster: Blamer vs. Cramer: Why Jon Stewart Won the Battle but Might Lose the War 2009
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All I retained from these first two Terminator films was the serio-comic image of Arnold Schwarzenegger with machine-made muscles.
It's Back to the Future! Terminator Salvation's Time Warp Left Me Dizzy 2009
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