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gallows humor

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gallows humor
n.
Humorous treatment of a grave or dire situation: "conveying with gallows humor the utter insanity of the nuclear-arms race" (New York).


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Steve Wynn will now take another swing with "Spamalot," which begins preview performances Thursday in the run-up to a March 31 opening, but even he has begun to apply gallows humor to the whole concept.
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In the back of the room, between chip munching, legislative aides share the gallows humor with right-wing journalists about getting "murdered in Indiana.
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Lopez extrapolates from the illogical, lobs in some gallows humor, and creates new absurdities.
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