See amusing in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:",
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"ref": "2012 December 21, George Monbiot, “Your gift at Christmas will soon be junk”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 2, page 24:",
"text": "They seem amusing on the first day of Christmas, daft on the second, embarrassing on the third. By the twelfth they're in landfill. For 30 seconds of dubious entertainment, or a hedonic stimulus that lasts no longer than a nicotine hit, we commission the use of materials whose impacts will ramify for generations.",
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"text": "An amusing incident on the first of these journeys was the checking by signal of the flyer about 3 miles out of Paris, with the result that it was overhauled by the 6.25 p.m. semi-fast from Paris to Montargis, to the unconcealed delight of passengers in the latter.",
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"word": "chistoso"
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"code": "ka",
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"word": "სასაცილო"
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"code": "hu",
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"word": "mulatságos"
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"code": "hu",
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"word": "jópofa"
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"code": "hu",
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"word": "vicces"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "funny",
"word": "śmieszny"
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"code": "pt",
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"word": "engraçado"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"word": "поте́шный"
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"word": "смешно́й"
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"code": "gd",
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"word": "àbhachdach"
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"word": "поті́шний"
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"code": "uk",
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