mildly comic
Frequency: 4.81.5 per million words
Suggests a gentle, not intense, form of humor.
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- The situation was mildly comic, with everyone trying to speak at once.
- The film has some mildly comic moments, but it's mostly a drama.
- He had a mildly comic look of confusion on his face.
- The novel's tone is often mildly comic, poking fun at social conventions.
- What started as a serious discussion soon became a mildly comic argument.
- I found his attempts to assemble the furniture to be mildly comic.
- The formal dinner had its share of mildly comic mishaps.
- Her exaggerated description of the event was mildly comic.
- The play explores serious themes, interspersed with mildly comic scenes for relief.
- Looking back, our first attempt at building a website was a mildly comic failure.