seriocomic
- s mixing the serious with the comic with comic predominating
a seriocomic novel
- Tolstoy's diaries and instructional writings are engorged with this seriocomic theme, a fact that led Biographer Henri Troyat to conclude more than 20 years ago that Russia's .
- The seriocomic seizure game was stepped up during President Nguyen Van Thieu's one-man run for reelection.
- This is the self-devouring logical worm that lies at the heart of Catch-22, the story of Yossarian, his colleagueswho respond to the horrors of war with a range of seriocomic .