Sentence examples for dreadfully funny from inspiring English sources
"The situation was dreadfully funny," he said.
This is indeed a nasty piece of work, but exquisitely so, and dreadfully funny.
The film, inspired by the screenwriter Will Reiser's real-life story of being given a cancer diagnosis in his mid-20s, treats its subject matter as he did in real life: as dreadfully serious and dreadfully funny.
This was the perfect peek into what we can expect from Colbert, something that was uniquely him and dreadfully funny, but still beholden to the new rules of the late night ecosystem.
"It's not as easily categorized as some of what we do," said the Culture Project artistic director, Allan Buchman, "but it does bring up how the press can be so easily manipulated and that politics are corrupt, yet it's far more subtle than that, and of course dreadfully funny".
Brown has said she enjoys playing the comical aspects of Dot, stating, "She's not dreadfully funny but she's amusing and I like that because it lightens it up a bit".
"You have to laugh, " he writes, "because it is dreadfully, morbidly funny to see a human being to whom you have no connection reduced to the level of a windup toy.
The older, LSD-addled version of Thompson Depp played in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was anarchic and funny and clever – whereas the younger incarnation as Kemp is naive, dreadfully earnest and takes himself and his notion of Being A Writer so seriously that only the most impressionable student journalist could watch without cringing.
Just as funny showing the relationships between Richard and his outlandish friends as it is parodying the increasingly powerful and dreadfully sincere tech industry, Silicon Valley is about not losing your heart and soul when the machines take over.
Solitude is dreadfully unfashionable.
