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- adjective
superlative form ofdroll : mostdroll .
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Examples
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But never mind: Relax, let go and enjoy London's drollest and silliest play since the NT's (even better) "One Man, Two Guvnors" (just transferred to the Adelphi Theatre).
An Edgy 'Comedy of Errors' Paul Levy 2011
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She's the drollest comic working today and her deadpan style makes the comic documentary "Paper Heart," premiering in dramatic competition at the Sundance Film Festival, a fresh, irreverent road comedy.
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Roy Edroso at alicublog offers the drollest, darkest follow-up: "Fox News announced it would refer henceforth to such suicides as 'homicide suicides,' to let viewers know that they were actually attacks on American self-esteem."
Three Nooses, No Waiting: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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That woodwind-rich music from "The Trouble With Harry" is one of the drollest tone poems ever written.
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The capital itself he considered “the drollest place in Christian lands.”
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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The capital itself he considered “the drollest place in Christian lands.”
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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Milan — is, without any exception, the drollest exhibition I ever beheld in my life.
Pictures from Italy 2007
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He had a little Norval dress, I remember: the drollest little Norval.
Roundabout Papers 2006
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She indicated each personage, and sustained the character capitally, making full use of the talent of mimicry she had inherited with her Italian blood; she had no mercy on her soft voice or her lovely face, and when she had to represent some old crone in her dotage, or a stupid burgomaster, she made the drollest grimaces, screwing up her eyes, wrinkling up her nose, lisping, squeaking ....
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The newspapers bear-hugged him: “immense success,” “drollest humor.”
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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