Translation for "drolleries" to spanish
Drolleries
noun
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Translation examples
The drollery of addressing myself thus stopped me.
La bufonería de hablarme así a mí mismo me dejó cortado.
noun
There was no drollery in his seriousness;
No había ni una pizca de gracia en su seriedad;
My face, I suspect, bears promise of some drollery about death and its too, too little sting.
Mi cara, sospecho, contiene algo que sugiere una ingeniosidad sobre la muerte, que no tendría la menor gracia.
Though these questions rather discomposed Orlando at first, they were put with such archness and drollery that he could not help but laugh;
Aunque esas preguntas desconcertaron al principio a Orlando, estaban hechas con tanta gracia y tal picardía que no pudo menos que reírse;
The anonymous painter has captured with unconscious drollery the identical self-important expression in both the wealthy sitter and her pet.
Sin pretenderlo, el pintor anónimo ha captado con una gracia inigualable la expresión de autocomplacencia tanto de la acaudalada dama como de su perro.
‘Mm, it’s rather hell in there,’ Paul said, giggling at his own drollery more than he could quite explain.
—Mmm, eso es un auténtico infierno —dijo Paul, riéndose de su propia gracia sin saber muy bien por qué.
There was Horrigan, for instance, who for seven long weeks kept him in good humor with his drollery, though he was bringing him in to be hanged.
Sin ir más lejos, el mismo Horrigan, por ejemplo, durante más de siete semanas estuvo divirtiéndole con sus gracias, no obstante ser él quien le conducía a la horca.
Yet her teasing and sarcasm were so nimble and good-humoured; she insinuated so pleasantly her little drolleries and innuendoes, that even if Miss M.
Pero sus bromas y sus ironías fueron tan ligeras y tan joviales, insinuó con tanta gracia sus pequeñas agudezas e indirectas, que aunque la señorita M.
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