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humor

Humor is ideas that make people laugh: jokes, funny things. I like the stories she tells because they're full of humor.

humor

(= humour, sense of humor, sense of humour) the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous she didn't appreciate my humor you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor (= wit) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter (= temper, humour) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time he was in a bad humor put into a good mood (= humour) the quality of being funny I fail to see the humor in it (= humour) (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile (= liquid body substance) the liquid parts of the body

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Topics humor topics

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Simple sentences

It is a pity that he has no sense of humor.
They have a sense of humor.
The professor's speech was full of humor.
It's a pity that Mary has no sense of humor.
The story is full of humor.
You have a sense of humor.
You young people have no sense of humor at all.
Most Americans have a sense of humor.
Humor is absent in his way of thinking.
He was a warm gentleman with a pleasant sense of humor.
He has no sense of humor.
He has a sense of humor.
Your sense of humor is beginning to exert itself.
I don't see why I am in a bad humor this morning.
This play has no humor in it.
You've got a great sense of humor.
Our teacher has a wonderful sense of humor.

Movie subtitles

It's classic humor.
Well, I've been practicing my humor.
I must commend your sense of humor, Mr. Thornton.
Now, don't lose your sense of humor, Johnny.
The newspapers pounced on him, made him a target for their feeble humor.
It's a fitting climax to my sense of humor.
They got no sense of humor.
They used to call it humor.
We had to have a lot of humor.
Be thankful my humor's of a different sort.
Rather primitive humor, I hope.
I'm said to have a sense of humor.
Give a boy a sense of humor and proportion, and he'll stand up to anything.
I'm in no mood for humor, Clara.
You don't seem to be in very good humor.
Don't you see what a bad humor he's in.
You English have such a sense of humor.
His last remark proves the district attorney hasn't lost his humor, in spite of the fact that his attempt to establish the presence of the defendants at the lynching has either failed or been ridiculed by the defense.
Or does he make you lose your sense of humor?
No doubt he has a better sense of humor.
I'm afraid that my sister has a somewhat distorted sense of humor.
Not only has he a distorted sense of humor but his entire personality is distorted.
See, gentlemen, Monsieur Cantrell is in bad humor because Julie Marsden is marrying.
You have no sense of humor!
Not a grain of humor in you.
I will also bring along the humor manual.
Is this your idea of humor, my friend?
Monsieur La Tour La Tour. I choose to think that idiotic reply was not a weak attempt at humor. But a definite lack of intelligence.
What a divine sense of humor!
Thank you. I'm afraid that my sister has a somewhat distorted sense of humor.
WE MUSTN'T HUMOR HER, MISS SUSAN.
Your Highness has saved me words. Unless the bulge in my left pocket. is made good immediately after the ceremony. Your Highness will have the opportunity. of entertaining the police with his priceless humor.
It's up to us men to humor 'em. say pretty things.

News and current affairs

I won't humor myself that it was the chess analysis that drew attention, although I was a commentator for public television on the pivotal 13th game.
Personally, Blix is amiable and has a sense of humor; politically he is weak and easily fooled.
For now, it may only be black humor (e.g., the New Orleans waiter who asks diners whether they want their shrimp leaded or unleaded).
And when there are challenges or obstacles (mostly in the more recent movies), these are quickly overcome (and with humor).
It immediately regained its strength, its sense of humor, and its industriousness.
Russians habitually respond with black humor to events both good and bad, and the events of 2008 were no exception.
But make no mistake: Putin's popularity ratings relied not on his vigor, humor, or mystique, but on salaries and credits that Russians had never enjoyed before.
And so could a sense of humor.
Cubans are known for managing humor in the worst situations.
In those days, editors, reporters, and columnists played a cat-and-mouse game with the authorities, resorting to satire, humor, or metaphor.
A man of charm and humor in private life, he is relentlessly dour in public.
With his traditional sense of humor, Lula dismissed the slight.
Charlie Hebdo, of course, used humor precisely to challenge sacred cows.
He preferred humor to hectoring, gently making fun of those whom he criticized, while always making sure that even the most severe intellectual critique did not deny the humanity of his opponents.
Soft spoken, mild mannered, thoughtful, and with a wonderful sense of humor, Tajbakhsh is portrayed by the Iranian government as a ravenous wolf ready to devour the regime.
I suppose that censors never have much of a sense of humor, and that irony and parody are usually beyond their intellectual grasp.

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