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单词 low comedy
释义

low comedy

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noun

comedy that depends on physical action, broadly humorous or farcical situations, and often bawdy or vulgar jokes.
Compare high comedy.

Origin of low comedy

First recorded in 1600–10

OTHER WORDS FROM low comedy

low comedian, noun

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Example sentences from the Web for low comedy

  • You've been having a fine, low-comedy time laughing yourselves to death at me, haven't you?

    Jason|Justus Miles Forman
  • Didn't you s'pose I knew as well as any one that I got a low-comedy face and couldn't ever make the grade in a serious piece?

    Merton of the Movies|Harry Leon Wilson
  • On the one hand, Lessing and George Eliot; on the other, the stock dramatist and novelist, with their low-comedy villain.'

    The Grandchildren of the Ghetto|Israel Zangwill

British Dictionary definitions for low comedy

low comedy

noun

comedy characterized by slapstick and physical action

Derived forms of low comedy

low comedian, noun
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