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gallows humor
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gallows humor,
n a dark or morbid sense of humor unique to people who deal with suffering and tragedy—for example, patients who are terminally ill joking about their illness or death as a means of coping with the illness.
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This gallows humour rejoiced in jeering at the sacrosanct Communist Party, which by the 1980s was widely reputed to be headed by senile and corrupt officials.
East of the Iron Curtain, humour helped society cope by AFP / AFP Global Edition
Happy pomp and glory times indeed and we could still find solace in gallows humour as, literally, everything eventually collapsed and crumbled while a few hundred hardy supporters swallowed a walloping from Batley or Dewsbury.
Cheer on the Giants; Mailbag by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
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Don't hang about in noose test; CHALLENGE by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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