Sentence examples for this was droll from inspiring English sources

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This was droll enough, I suppose, as far as it went.

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This is droll, but it is also deeply touching because it encapsulates the lapses and petty indignities of aging.

His delivery was droll.

He was droll ("America, I come in peace"), playfully evasive about changing the team's name and confident of a championship in five years "maximum".

Despite the disturbing subject matter (which included flashbacks to Dexter's primal traumas and scenes of his victims Saran-wrapped into submission), the show's tone was droll.

The Directress was droll and direct, like a sassy no-nonsense grandmother.

This was rather droll, but Welles seemed to mean it.

As he undoubtedly anticipated, we thought that this was extremely droll, and, in keeping with the spirit of the joke, reimbursed him.

This is typical of the remarks he makes, which are droll and arch and often culminate in a camp giggle.

It says: "You and I are so far superior to this wretch that anything I devise is acceptable as long as it is droll".

Some have been droll, others severe.

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