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Example sentences for "humourously"

Lexicographically close words:
humouredly; humouring; humourist; humourists; humourous; humours; humoursome; hump; humpback; humpbacked
  1. And yet the passages in my letter, upon which you are so humourously severe, lay me fairly open to your agreeable raillery.

  2. Rossetti used humourously to call him 'The Symposiarch,' and no doubt the influence of his long practice of oral criticism in Cheyne Walk, at Kelmscott Manor, as well as in such opposite gatherings as those at Dr.

  3. A rapid walker poetically and humourously minded gathers multitudes of images on his way.

  4. Willoughby that was meant to be humourously scornful, and soon became apologetic under the Doctor's interrogatively grasping gaze.

  5. A young subaltern, even if passably vulgar in figure, can be shuffled through by the aid of the heroical story humourously exaggerated in apology for his aspect.

  6. The doctor humourously declared he was entitled to their thanks for the resurrection of their friend.

  7. He humourously observed to Mr. Langton, that 'when in that dress he could not treat people with the same ease as when in his usual plain clothes[594].


  8. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "humourously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.