gallows humour

noun

1. sinister and ironic humour

Example Sentences

Leather concurs: "It's how we respond to a crisis, there’s got to be a lot of gallows humour there – if we don’t have that and it’s cod-American, it’s not going to work. It has to be the British way. And we love to moan about trains!"

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Like many veterans who contributed to We Were There, Andrew described his experience using gallows humour.

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They said the "gallows humour" was the venting of their frustrations at working in a chronically understaffed unit.

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They said the "gallows humour" was the venting of their frustrations at working in a chronically understaffed unit.

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He said this was "gallows humour" echoing the government's own pandemic slogan of the time - but acknowledged this was "inappropriate, even in a private exchange".

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