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View synonyms for low comedy
low comedy
noun
- comedy that depends on physical action, broadly humorous or farcical situations, and often bawdy or vulgar jokes.
low comedy
noun
- comedy characterized by slapstick and physical action
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Derived Forms
- low comedian, noun
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Other Words From
- low comedian noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of low comedy1
First recorded in 1600–10
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Example Sentences
She was making a low comedy sound which would have distressed her beyond measure if she had heard it.
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Ostensibly, you go to view the scenery, really, to be inveigled into paying for a low comedy of a dinner at the other end.
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Low comedy also draws well; and I have often wondered that Mr. Toole has not paid us a visit.
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His face and person are well adapted to a certain class of low comedy; his voice still more so.
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In the region of low comedy he is easily the most original, the most inexhaustible, the most wonderful, of modern humorists.
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