Tragicomically

Something is tragicomically wrong when a couple of quixotic newbies can seize the moral high ground on regulating the nation's advisory firms, which collectively handle an estimated $38 trillion. ❋ Jason Zweig (2011)

I struggled through Douchebag about two brothers tragicomically incapable of communicating with, or committing to, the opposite sex. ❋ Sebastian Doggart (2010)

Who had the courage to rehash an argument that has already been shown to absolutely, tragicomically absurd? ❋ Unknown (2009)

"This very particular movie has a lyrical feel for place, period, and the rhythms of a small-town community trying - and tragicomically failing - to run in place while the world around it opens its arms to creeping corporatism," writes Ella Taylor in the LA Weekly. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He is clad in a dark coat, the collar striated with lint and dandruff, the sleeves tragicomically short, exposing his dirt-rimmed shirt cuffs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You know, one of the bombs -- one of the unexploded bombs found on a shut down Russian plane yesterday, tragicomically said, "this is for Americans, this is for NATO," in Russian. ❋ Unknown (2008)

From now on, she will be on the watch as well for those who cloak the past in mystique, or who tragicomically misread it. ❋ Kerr, Sarah (2007)

The tragicomically counterproductive jousts about property aren't usually so, but they can be. ❋ Mike L (2005)

But of course there's a catch, as there often is with bishops these days and, I'm beginning to conclude from my reading of history, more days than not: the principles, and the consistency with which he applies them, are tragicomically inadequate from a Catholic and pastoral point of view. ❋ Mike L (2005)

This story has tragicomically reminded me of when Agatha Christie faked her own death in an attempt to get her husband charged for murder. ❋ Ann Althouse (2005)

It dresses him in a patient's smock a tragicomically cruel costume, no less blighting than a prisoner's jumpsuit and assumes absolute control of his actions. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Under the tragicomically counterproductive results of Europe's so-called correction mechanism, the cure is becoming a lot worse than the disease - the cue, perhaps, at some stage, for the patient to be put out of its misery. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A cart draped in white rolls across the stage, tragicomically transformed from the Crow's delivery wagon to an operating table. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The new [Healthcare] [law] is so tragicomical, I don't know whether [to kill] myself now or wait and let them do it for me. ❋ TomShark, President/CEO Of Oddly Enough (2010)

"killed in a tragicomic [accident] while [crossing] the road to the [hotel]" ❋ Gribz (2006)