Word: mirthlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government, but the suspicion runs high because Watt derided not only his commissioners, but also those members of the public sufficiently generous to find both humor and value in a sensitive issue. The laughter he elicited-and there was laughter-was the hollow laugh, what Samuel Beckett called the "mirthless" laugh (in the novel Watt, coincidentally), the laugh that itself gives a slap in the face...