comedy of manners
nounDefinitions
A comic work that satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often…
A comic work that satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters.
- “The great millennial novelist”—the mantle has been thrust, by Boomers and Gen Xers alike, upon the Irish writer Sally Rooney, whose two carefully observed and gentle comedies of manners both appeared before her twenty-eighth birthday.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for comedy of manners. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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