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Sense of humor   /sɛns əv hjˈumər/   Listen
Sense of humor

noun
1.
The trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous.  Synonyms: humor, humour, sense of humour.  "You can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"






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"Sense of humor" Quotes from Famous Books



... the wife, affectionately, "I wonder why Mr. Ravenel avoided mentioning that to you. He needn't have feared your sense of humor. Ah! if you only had ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable

... Cupid as a Link-Boy are companion pieces, painted from the same model,—a mischievous young street boy, whose simulated gravity is irresistibly droll. The artist's keen sense of humor is seen again in that most captivating little rogue, Puck. The saucy elf is perched on a mushroom, resting after a frolic, and apparently ...
— Child-life in Art • Estelle M. Hurll

... girl! No sense of humor!" commented Calder, with a shake of his head and a backward roll of ...
— Comedies of Courtship • Anthony Hope

... his blood. He laughed as he put his skill and strength in the sweep of his paddle, and for a time the thought that he was an outlaw, and in losing Nada had lost everything in life worth righting for, was not so oppressive. It was the old, joyous laugh, stirred by his sense of humor, and the trick he had played on Cassidy. He could imagine Cassidy back on the shore, his temper redder than his hair as he cursed and tore up the sand in his ...
— The Country Beyond - A Romance of the Wilderness • James Oliver Curwood

... an expression that cut me, at least, to the quick. "Young gentlemen," he said, "I did not expect you to be so unkind." I longed to explain, but did not find words at the moment, and we went on with our lesson. The fact was that Testa had not the least sense of humor in his composition, and so he could not understand what had happened. A humorous man, acquainted with the nature of boys, would have understood the attack of fou rire, and forgiven it; but then a humorous man would have thought twice before appealing to a set of English boys for sympathy ...
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton • Philip Gilbert Hamerton et al


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