Words similar to amusing
Example sentences for: amusing
How can you use “amusing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
They were less amusing when hailing World War I as the “world’s hygiene. ”
Pynchon the verbal technician is genius, but Pynchon the humorist is lame indeed and reminds one of a brainy college sophomore who studies joke books to make himself amusing.
The biggest problem: The character is "so sad and helpless, so hard to like, so impossible to empathize with, that watching it feels like an act of unkindness" (Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). A few concede that the film is "amusing if uneven" (Dennis Harvey, Daily Variety ), and Stephen Hunter gives the film a decidedly upbeat review: "The character works because Shannon so precisely gets the dank weirdness of the truly alone.
The current cycle of shock and horror about White House sleepovers in the Lincoln Bedroom in return for large contributions to the Democratic National Committee is amusing.
Eliot, who will no doubt share screenwriting credit with Stoppard in the film version of Cats , once referred to his poetry as a "superior amusement," a description that applies to Stoppard's plays as well: They are amusing, and they make us feel superior.