Definition of “droll”

Among the comics, the material varies from droll to dead-on hilarious.

At the pop of the cork, he made a droll remark and she laughed almost skittishly.

He told droll stories about a soldier's life and its sharp contrast to the silken luxuries of the court.

Sexy and beautifully filmed but it doesn't quite sustain the droll relationship.

Surf the Web and you will find unknown companies selling herbal cosmetics; and all of Amul butter's droll hoardings.

The first is a droll , boozy cynic; the latter simmers with bottled rage.

The old lady took off her spectacles with a droll , unconscious air of correctness.

This could be passed off as the droll dress sense of a self-consciously idiosyncratic group of fans.

This droll titbit of Canterbury gossip was, of course, to re-emerge as the story of Pyramus and Thisbe in A Midsummer Night's Dream.