Sentence examples for be humoured from inspiring English sources
noun
The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.
- She has a great sense of humour, and I always laugh a lot whenever we get together.
Even among his oldest friends, he must be humoured like a wayward child.
It was a moment of warmth on a chilly afternoon that suggested the Obama girls, who have looked less than thrilled to be part of the tradition in past years, realise that sometimes parents just have to be humoured.
Subsequently, to combat this inherent homophobia, the thought of two males in a close friendship must be humoured and justified within society in order for masculinity to be maintained.
They must be humoured, but the cost of the investment in their cabins has to be met somehow, and the restructuring of the award programmes is one way to control costs.United is not alone in increasing the cost of its award tickets.
Turnbull has always positioned himself above the fray, a character bigger than party and talking points, a person of independent means and outlook – not a hidebound creature of culture and creed and habit, and certainly not a politician in hock to numbers men, or loyalists, or fixers who need to be humoured even when they've fallen into perfidy, or outlived their usefulness.
Maybe the common denominator here so far is humour & flippancy?
I was humouring him, with a laugh and a joke.
There has to be humour in everything.
There had to be humour: there is a wonderful mischievousness to the Second Doctor.
"They used to be humour, but now it's dead serious".
I mean its kind of -- not to be humours or whatever.
