mirth
Example Sentences
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The temptation was to laugh because the place couldn't have been any more electrified, but the drama down below didn't allow for mirth.
From BBC
Incredulously, I detected mirth in his voice, and sure enough he started to laugh, cueing the others.
From Literature
Place this alongside Horace in one of his “Epistles”: “The advancing years rob us of every thing: they have taken away my mirth, my gallantry, my revelings, and play.”
Hopefully, that mirth is starting to wear thin.
From Salon
In summoning so much mirth for its monument to merriment, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” cheerfully rages against the dying of the light.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.