Examples of droll

• This soliloquy is nowadays performed facetiously, as a droll riff on bigotry.

• We sang the music; the canon was excellent and very droll.

• The music ranges from dreamy to dramatic to droll, sometimes with sudden changes of style in a single song.

• Along with the unexpectedly droll spoken interjections, this 'work' is a tour de force.

• The clowning is not knock-about, coming across as droll rather than slapstick.

• I hope that the procedure will be satisfactory, whether it is droll or not.

• I included the following sentence in my notes, which is perhaps slightly droll, but still applies.

• I thought it right to emphasise these droll aspects, ridiculous aspects—even laughable aspects, were it not that the subject is serious and tragic.