tragicomedy
noun
tragi·com·e·dy
ˌtra-ji-ˈkä-mə-dē 
: a drama or a situation blending tragic and comic elements
Examples of tragicomedy in a Sentence
The play is a tragicomedy about a man's search for love.
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The audience—both the fictional one upstate and the real one in Manhattan—soon slips into a world where human-scale beach balls and painter’s buckets become a playground for physical investigation, where the tragicomedy of real life slips in through the cracks.
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Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 25 Apr. 2025
In its first glimpse of their Carabao Cup-winning team, St James’ Park gave no inclination of letting the moment go, of consigning the recent past to history books which have traditionally read like epic tragicomedy.
—Chris Waugh, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
That proved to be the case once more when a major studio balked at his tragicomedy take.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2025
Directed by Josef Hader The soil of the Austrian countryside is rich with tragicomedy in writer-director-star Hader’s second feature as a director after 2017’s Wild Mouse.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2025
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Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 25 Apr. 2025
In its first glimpse of their Carabao Cup-winning team, St James’ Park gave no inclination of letting the moment go, of consigning the recent past to history books which have traditionally read like epic tragicomedy.
—Chris Waugh, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
That proved to be the case once more when a major studio balked at his tragicomedy take.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2025
Directed by Josef Hader The soil of the Austrian countryside is rich with tragicomedy in writer-director-star Hader’s second feature as a director after 2017’s Wild Mouse.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for tragicomedy
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“Tragicomedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tragicomedy. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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