Humour in a sentence as a noun

And it is dark humour, sarcasm, cynism, you name it.

That's the kind of humour that I appreciate in a MtGox article.

Not Douglas Crockford's license written in good humour and with nice intentions.

And the cohort which estimated its humour in the bottom quartile did, too, perform the worst.

I'll just point out that was one of the major talks at DjangoCon 2010 and the title was meant to be provocative and in good humour.

I like the American people--on the whole, I find them pleasant, polite, good-humoured, decent people.

Humour in a sentence as a verb

Self-deprecating humour is almost never offensive, even to the group you're a part of.

The Dunning & Kruger cohort which estimated its humour at the top quartile did perform in the top-quartile.

Unfortunately the distribution of sense-of-humour in the world is not even.

It could be humour it could be looks, it could be prestige, it could be they went to a college you admire, it could be because they are in awe of the person, or their profession, or their power.

Best understood in context as a combination of medical humour, and a critique of evidence-based medicine.

Humour definitions

noun

a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor"

See also: temper mood humor

noun

a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

See also: humor witticism wittiness

noun

(Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile"

See also: humor

noun

the liquid parts of the body

See also: humor

noun

the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"

See also: humor

noun

the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"

See also: humor

verb

put into a good mood

See also: humor