humorous in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

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umoristico
humorous
pochade
humorous sketch
prendere le cose con umorismo
to see the humorous side of things
fare dell'umorismo
to be humorous
Terrone
This word is derived from terra (land or earth), because it refers to an agricultural worker who used to work on the land on the large estates in the south of Italy. It has become the most common word used by northern Italians to describe a southern Italian in a pejorative and racist way, usually with the additional meaning of “ignorant, dirty, uncivilized” being understood. The term gained currency in the 1960s and 1970s when there was widespread immigration of southern Italians into the industrial towns and cities of the northwest. In Italy today insulting terms of a racist nature concentrate largely on foreign immigrants from outside the European Community, and the term terrone is less widely used and often takes on humorous overtones (especially when used by southerners themselves). Its negative sense has, however, been given a boost by the anti-southern polemic of the Lega Nord.

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humorous Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

she laced her speech with humorous remarks
inframmezzò il suo discorso di battute

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My first short stories and humorous sketches were published in 1953.
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It republished a number of webcomics and contained topical and humorous features about a wide variety of campus topics.
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Humorous imagery is often placed beside scenes of tragic family incidents.
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Such claims may be made purely for humorous effect.
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It probably should have been much more comic, really humorous, and fun.
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His music often utilizes a mixture of political ideologies, humorous themes, surreal self-retrospection and local identity.
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It is also the name of their humorous rock band.
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Several critics, on the other hand, felt that the main plot was too mean to be humorous.
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The poem was a humorous summary vignette of what could be expected in the episode.
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The story is well constructed and there are a lot of humorous moments.
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