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Definition of Drollest
1. droll [adj] - See also: droll
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drollest
Literary usage of Drollest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pictures of Travel by Heinrich Heine (1856)
"She flirted with the poor sacristan—made the drollest excuses to the bishop with
the worn-out nose, declining in the politest manner any return of her call, ..."
2. The Earliest Letters of Charles Dickens: Written to His Friend Henry Kolle by Charles Dickens, Harry Bache Smith (1910)
"Listen, the drollest of comedians, in a fit of melancholia, visited a doctor who,
not recognizing him, advised him to "go to see Liston act. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1865)
"The Yorkshire parson who had written the drollest book, and was the drollest man
of the time, was a gentleman by ..."
4. Mississippi Scenes: Or, Sketches of Southern and Western Life and Adventure by Joseph Beckham Cobb (1851)
"Ac. "The drollest specimen of waggery that ever emanated from that drollest of
men, Burton."—The City Item. Price 50 Cents. (Complete^ ODD LEAVES FROM THE ..."
5. The English Illustrated Magazine (1897)
"One of the drollest stories I heard in the tent was that of a jockey act ...
One of my drollest experiences was when I got a rider on to the subject of his ..."
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