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Example sentences from the Web for half-seriousDetroiters, now erecting a Robocop statue as a half-joking, half-serious morale boost, may want to consider bronzing Mulally next. The CEO Hail Mary: A Scorecard on Corporate Change Agents|Nick Summers|March 1, 2011|DAILY BEAST The half-whimsical, half-serious smile returned to his eyes. A Breath of Prairie and other stories|Will Lillibridge "I have no titles to offer my wife," he replied, in a half-sportive, half-serious tone. The Ball at Sceaux|Honore de Balzac Often in a half-jocular, half-serious tone they say that they had reason to be grateful to the Allies. Russia|Donald Mackenzie Wallace
One amusing feature of the affair was the half-serious and half-jocular manner of Aaron. Gorillas & Chimpanzees|R. L. Garner Half-grinning, half-serious, Jock stuck his thumbs in the armholes of his waistcoat, and began. Personality Plus|Edna Ferber
Derived forms of half-serioushalfseriously, adverbWords nearby half-serioushalf-round file, half-ruined, half-seas over, half-second, half-section, half-serious, half-share, half shell, halfsies, half-silvered, half sister Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |