humor
/ˈhjuːmɚ/ verb C2- To pacify by indulging.
He/she/it humors · Past humored · Past participle humored · -ing form humoring
Verb forms
- Base form
- humor
- He/she/it
- humors
- Past
- humored
- Past participle
- humored
- -ing form
- humoring
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Having given this vent to his ill-humor, the baron became more calm; Mademoiselle Danglars had that morning requested an interview with her father, and had fixed on the gilded drawing-room as the spot.
“No matter,” replied De Boville, in supreme good-humor at the certainty of recovering his two hundred thousand francs,—“no matter, I can fancy it.” And he shouted with laughter.
Danglars was balancing his monthly accounts, and it was perhaps not the most favorable moment for finding him in his best humor.
She looked like a woman of narrow experience and rigid conscience, which she was; but there was a saving something about her mouth which, if it had been ever so slightly developed, might have been considered indicative of a sense of humor.
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