Definition of amasing

(The Providence Journal...)

Instead - and not just to prove my objectivity - I hasten to report that it 's a highly amusing film which probably does a fairly accurate job of reporting on the Easter vacation shenanigans of collegians down in Fort_Lauderdale , and that it seems to come_to_grips quite honestly with the moral problem that most commonly vexes youngsters in this age_group - that_is_to_say , sex .

(Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)

Duclos understood what was bothering Rousseau : that the writer of the Prosopopoeia_of_Fabricius should now become known as the writer of an amusing little operetta .

(Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)

This creates an amusing effect because its position in a sentence seems to make it apply to the wrong word .

Since brevity is the soul of ambiguity as_well as wit , newspaper headlines continually provide us with amusing samples .

(James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)

Moreland fixed us each another drink , and said , `` For God 's sake , tell me something truly amusing '' .