| 单词 | comical-sounding |
| 释义 | > as lemmascomical-sounding Complementary, as comical-looking, comical-sounding, etc., adjs. ΚΠ 1694 P. A. Motteux in tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. p. xxxvii His Design seems rather..to secure himself from the Informations of his Prying Enemies by that mixture of Comical seeming Nonsense. 1771 tr. Molière Wks. IV. 130 I cannot understand what that comical looking fellow there wants at my house. 1827 High Life I. iv. 80 A fat, comical-looking woman..was seated in an arm-chair at one end of the room. 1869 Macmillan's Mag. May 234/1 The comical-sounding, though highly experimental criticisms..in Edgeworth's ‘Practical Education’. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo i. 1 A comical-looking bloke! Perhaps a Bolshy. 1992 Amer. Zoologist 32 111/1 Numerous (now comical-seeming) scenarios have been proposed to explain the situation away. 2014 Guardian (Nexis) 3 May (Travel section) 3 We spotted packs of mischievous macaques, comical-looking proboscis monkeys..and our first wild orangutan. < as lemmas |
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