Hollywood has grown too sophisticated to turn out anything really amusingly bad these days. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Ivanisevic speaks in amusingly mangled English, his head-spinning self-analysis and rich baritone enhancing the comedic effect. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Ivanisevic achieves 'dream'] Reference
Frank as the kind of amusingly blinkered presence you want around. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference
Slumdog Millionaire; written by Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy from Aron Ralston's book which is, kind of amusingly, called. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
He was so amusingly persistent that I finally agreed. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure] Reference
Nawin slunk back into what he amusingly considered his. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
The veteran in an amusingly polite manner arose and bowed. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
WILLIAM is amusingly suspicious, and insists on seeing the man. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891] Reference
On an occasion subsequently Prince Hohenlohe amusingly notes that the. From Wordnik.com. [William of Germany] Reference
They are all admirably sincere but sometimes also amusingly oblivious. From Wordnik.com. [Turning Un-Japanese] Reference
We went to every kind of shop; they are amusingly different from ours. From Wordnik.com. [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference
In addition to being quite inane, it has some amusingly bizarre nuggets. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: Mad Men : 'The Suitcase' Is Tougher Than Sonny Liston] Reference
Authorized Version the two parties shifted their ground rather amusingly. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
They became amusingly disposed to sociability, as well as to inquisitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
All this is related very amusingly by M. Dumas, but at too great length for our limits. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference
For Nabokov's fictional Ramsdale this novel amusingly substitutes the real-life Scarsdale. From Wordnik.com. [Roll Over, Nabokov] Reference
The effects of this custom are once amusingly illustrated at the home of Captain Brentwood. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Writers] Reference
The saturnine Anthony Wood is amusingly illustrated in two passages from his notice of Earle. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
A note he makes in one of his diaries amusingly illustrates the simple side of his character. From Wordnik.com. [William of Germany] Reference
Here, Frederik Pohl employs it to portray the amusingly catastrophic meeting of three societies. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of the Boomer Dukes] Reference
Nevertheless, Stanhope was enveigled into a silent flirtation which he describes thus amusingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference
The first night of one of these seasons is most amusingly described by the biographer of Rossini. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
"What's more, you sha'n't, Ethel!" said Simmons, who was amusingly careful of his friend's health. From Wordnik.com. [Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War] Reference
A Swiss theologian amusingly describes the superstitious person who reads his fortune in the stars. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
In regard to the derivation of words, his principles are sound, but his practice is often amusingly absurd. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
'Bill's' rowing was the source of much merriment, the strokes proving powerful, but the course amusingly devious. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
European playwright could have seen the ludicrous possibilities of evening dress as amusingly as Mr. Armstrong did. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
Some of the young Hindus of the city, who speak English rather fluently, become amusingly conceited in consequence. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
He faithfully sketches, and more often amusingly caricatures, the vices, foibles, and failings of French men and women. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
His criticism of Cicero is not illuminating and his estimate, in this connection, of his own accomplishment is amusingly complacent. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
Cooper soon discovers that far from being an amusingly offbeat outpost of innocent Americana, Twin Peaks is a bubbling caldron of vice. From Wordnik.com. [Still Wrapped In Plastic: 'Twin Peaks' Turns 20] Reference
It is true that Mr. Dobson, unable to find the authority for Bull's name, is a little more guarded, when he amusingly writes, in 1897. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
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