seriocomic
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seriocomic (comparative more seriocomic, superlative most seriocomic)
- Having both serious and comedic qualities or tendencies.
- Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead is a seriocomic romp through the summer of a group of teenagers.
- 2005, John W. Velz, “Adoxography as Mode of Discourse for Satan and His Underlings in Medieval Plays”, in Clifford Davidson, editor, The Dramatic Tradition of the Middle Ages [AMS Studies in the Middle Ages; 26], New York, N.Y.: AMS Press, →ISBN, page 102:
- In the N-Town Passion Play I, Lucifer is an implied presenter of the play and an implied controller of its events. He addresses the audience directly and confidentially in an extraordinary 124-line adoxograph which is part social satire and part seriocomic plea for our commitment to his suzerainty […]
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having both serious and comedic qualities or tendencies
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