: opera of a humorous character with a happy ending and usually some spoken dialogue
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Adjective
Rather, inflation had arisen from supply chain foul-ups caused by the Covid epidemic, an act of God rendered worse by comic-opera mismanagement under President Donald Trump.—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 30 June 2023
Noun
The one-act comic opera about small-town life in 1960s Central Mexico blends stories of faith, family, mystery and migration.—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2023 And because New York doesn’t have a comic opera company, MasterVoices fills a crucial, consistently entertaining niche.—Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023 See all Example Sentences for comic-opera
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