A playwright specializing in tragicomic drama.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The tragicomic disparity...between's man's aspirations and his accomplishments.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

What kind of tragicomic liar social climbs by pretending to be Irish?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Kelly: My Daughter's on the No Fly List] Reference

"" The Man Who '' is a kind of tragicomic variety show, in which dysfunction becomes both heartbreaking and hilarious.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tragicomic Variety Show] Reference

Written in a tragicomic style, it is very amusing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Pessimism] Reference

The Clintons have devolved into tragicomic buffoons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary: Obama Will Be A Good Friend To Israel] Reference

The Movement itself now has a tinge of the tragicomic.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Saint at Oxford] Reference

That was after the tragicomic tale of Greece's 2003 deficit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe's Original Sin] Reference

We were reminded of that tragicomic evening for two reasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Carpet] Reference

The shape of tragicomic romance is manifest in these utterances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare]

But we are not allowed to linger on this tragicomic moment for long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Megan Erickson: Cast Shines in "A Body of Water"] Reference

This is the reason why I am preoccupied with a sense of the tragicomic.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Hope on a Tightrope’] Reference

This report in The Australian newspaper has all the tragicomic details.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taxing alcopops: the Australian experience] Reference

So, expect more from this tragicomic president, possibly something big.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fannie Mae mess is just latest layer on Chef Dubya's tottering cake] Reference

Maybe we could write a tragicomic musical and call it "Stay the Course.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Smith: On Leaving Iraq] Reference

A Happy Thermometer is a tragicomic animated short movie by Mina Yonezawa.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Fat Clips!!! : MINA YONEZAWA – A Happy Thermometer] Reference

If the tragicomic triumvirate wants to contend otherwise, that's their right.    From Wordnik.com.  [SurveyUSA: Democrat Way Ahead In Race For Open GOP Senate Seat In New Mexico] Reference

'I bumped into him, that's all I did,' he proclaimed with tragicomic gestures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Longshot]

When I woke up this morning, the state of affairs globally was quite tragicomic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Dorchen: Study Proves Other People Are Even Worse Than We Thought] Reference

The House's biggest emitter of tragicomic relief had other compelling points to make.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alex Pasternack: Rep. Shimkus Calls Cap-and-Trade "The Largest Assault on Democracy and Freedom"] Reference

It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has be-come an ally of the secret police.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]

With the visit of Prime Minister Medvedev, their tragicomic tango hit the dustbin of history.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Cynic Explains The Russian Spying Scandal] Reference

Amazon describes it as "a tragicomic tale" but I think it's intelligent, comedic fiction at its finest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zachary Wagman: What's So Funny?] Reference

If Inhofe loses, it will truly be the end of an era: a tragicomic era of distraction, delusion, and delay.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Roberts: Inhofe Rallies the Old Guard: David Roberts] Reference

If the tragicomic path of the Olympic torch is any indication, it looks like that is precisely what is happening.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Will Get the Olympics It Deserves] Reference

Mr. Dunne even inserts some tragicomic vignettes told by real people that elucidate the lures and snares of fame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Griffin Dunne's Tract Is a Cautionary Movie] Reference

Into this tragicomic family circle, Carey ushers Maria Takis, the kind, idealistic and very pregnant tax inspector.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Down-Under Car Dealers From Hell] Reference

Stephen J Dubner, co-author of the number one bestseller, takes to the stage to explain the tragicomic appeal of finances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Superfreakonomics: you've read the book, now see the show] Reference

One tragicomic example of this is a story about a little boy who was brought into the hospital for severe abdominal pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Verbal First Aid: Words As Medicine] Reference

Eduardo Buzzi, head of the Argentine Agrarian Federation, an industry group, called Mrs. Kirchner's comments "tragicomic.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Argentina Confronts Soaring Inflation] Reference

Ernie turned as they entered the lobby, his expression a tragicomic mixture of eager and wistful at the sight of Veronique.    From Wordnik.com.  [Temporary Wife]

At this point there's nothing Hillary and her tragicomic triumvirate of Howie, Lanny and Terry could do that would surprise me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Up On The Air In June 3rd State] Reference

We set up the camera and filmed the tragicomic scene of hunger strikers exiting their buses in disheveled states of wobbly infirmity.    From Wordnik.com.  [ZHAO ZIYANG AND THE STUDENTS] Reference

And with obvious gaps like these, the recent debates over who failed to connect which obscure dots before September 11 are tragicomic.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Dog Won't Hunt] Reference

Frankly, the ever-morphing drivel coming out of the mouths of the tragicomic triumvirate of Lanny, Terry and Howard makes my head spin.    From Wordnik.com.  [GOPers Tearing Each Other To Shreds In Primary, Improving Dem Chances Of Holding Key House Seat] Reference

The episode may seem like a flashback to a tragicomic era of Latin American history when presidents were regularly overthrown in coups.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind the Honduran Mutiny] Reference

One by one, these journalists are trotted through their tragicomic hamster wheels: hope spinning toward joy, spiraling down to loneliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book review: 'The Imperfectionists,' by Tom Rachman] Reference