What is "comically"

Usage examples of "comically".

But the Aristophanic plot suggests that evil will comically triumph, that two wrongs will not make a right but will substitute for it in a world where right does not triumph anyway.

There was a crashing through the trees and bushes away to the right, but then a mottled, startled Friesian burst out near them like a pantomime cow, head up, legs comically uncertain.

Finally he looked up and noticed that the noctambulo had moved a short distance upstream from him and was grubbing about intently in the mud of the shore with its great scooplike hands, prodding and poking in it, dredging up large handfuls of mud that it turned over and over, inspecting them with almost comically deep attention.

Devoted Communists publicly confessed to stunning collaboration with the Nazis in comically absurd conspiracies.

Hitler entered Paris a week or two before a book of mine was due to be reprinted there, and comically enough a few days later I got a demand for income tax which I had been counting on this reprint to pay.

Her waifish eyes, heavily made up and almost comically long-lashed, were as blue as Spica, Alacrity thought, while Floyt compared them to cornflowers.

You never know, her eyes seemed to say as she gestured comically at the four small walls around her.

These horns look comically small, as though they come from animals you could kill with your bare hands.

Thus the endeavors of most of the bafflers upon both sides, while earnest enough and deadly enough of intent, were almost comically unproductive of result.

To-day"--he glanced over his shoulder to where the becurled chaps swung comically from the willow branch--"to-day's the first time anybody's made a move.

Jack’s death, Neela’s love, the defeat of fury, Asmaan’s elephant, Eleanor’s grief, Mila’s hurt, the contemptuous triumphalism of the plumber Schlink, summer’s end, the Bolgolam coup in Lilliput-Blefuscu, Solanka’s own jealousy of the FRM radical Babur, his quarrel with Neela, the shrieks in the night, the telling of his back-story, the high-speed development of the Galileo-Puppet Kings project and its gigantic success, the countercoup of “Commander Akasz,” Neela’s imminent departure: such an acceleration of the tempo­ral flow was almost comically overpowering.

Except that eight were comically croggled and her great toes looked like the heads on a pair of ball-peen hammers.

Quark snorted in disgust, as Base jumped up on the bar waving aloft his comically puny bat'leth.

In passable English, he tried to sell me a bus ticket in a comically aggressive manner that appealed to me.

Comically, Jamie bowed this way and that as he made his way to the witness-stand, spurs clattering, leather harness creaking like a superannuated farm horse.