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high comedy

NOUN
  1. a sophisticated comedy; often satirizing genteel society

How To Use high comedy In A Sentence

  • He did it laughing, as if his calumnies were the stuff of high comedy rather than the lowest of insults. Sound and Fury
  • It's a neatly judged mix of high comedy and pathos. Times, Sunday Times
  • If the characters do not have backbone, articulacy and humour, then that pretty much scuppers high comedy.
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