untragic

Of course, the last Lear I saw had the king in a huge hairy blue robe that honestly looked like the skin off the Cookie Monster, so I keep remembering that and laughing in a very untragic way.

Regan or Goneril Bardiac 2008

In the dining-room Annie was laying the table for dinner, and a most untragic odor of new garden peas began to steal along the hall.

The Breaking Point Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

Now the belfry of Delft, though all the upper part is of stone, yet it stands on a great pedestal (as it were) of brick -- a pedestal higher than the houses, and in this base are pierced two towering, broad, and single ogives, empty and wonderful and full of that untragic sadness which you may find also in the drooping and wide eyes of extreme old age.

Hills and the Sea Hilaire Belloc 1911

It is odious and also (through the absence of suffering) untragic; hence it is that no one is made to act thus except in some few instances, e.g. Haemon and

Poetics. English 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle 1911

The second is the most untragic that can be; it has no one of the requisites of Tragedy; it does not appeal either to the human feeling in us, or to our pity, or to our fears.

Poetics. English 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle 1911

At that command the hunchback, who had been leaning against a chair an apparently amused spectator of the not untragic scene, shambled slowly forward more ungainly than ever in his finery, his long sword swinging grotesquely against his legs.

The Duke's Motto A Melodrama 1898

It was the tragic turning-point of the French monarch's life, the not wholly untragic turning-point of larger destinies, ancient chivalry being admitted unsuccessful and wholly out of date.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

Tricolor ribands streaming aloft from pike-heads; ironshod batons; and emblems not a few; among which, see specially these two, of the tragic and the untragic sort: a Bull's Heart transfixed with iron, bearing this epigraph, 'Coeur d'Aristocrate, Aristocrat's Heart;' and, more striking still, properly the standard of the host, a pair of old Black Breeches

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838