Combining the serious and the comic; serious in intention but humorous in manner or vice versa.
严肃喜剧的；寓意庄重但形式诙谐（或反过来）的
a telling serio-comic critique
一篇有力的严肃喜剧评论。
Example sentencesExamples
So he was always going to have a serio-comic go at all that.
Actually there's only one narrative poem in ‘Other Worlds’, and that is this rather black comic tale of homicide, ‘Volcano Vertigo’, which I think was written in a sort of spirit of serio-comic gusto.
He is currently the toast of Broadway, taking on a serio-comic role in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg.
It begins as a serio-comic meditation on people's willingness to tolerate intimacy and accommodate the drives of their neighbours, before shifting into darker territory.
Eventually, when the serio-comic tone of the film finally shifts completely over into the somber, the movie runs out of energy and limps along to its overdone, far too false start-stop conclusion.
They set out to make a serio-comic documentary with an authentic voice.
But while these are serio-comic documentaries, The Son's Room is not played for so many laughs.
A collection of short stories, On the Yankee Station, appeared in 1981 and was followed by An Ice-Cream War, a serio-comic tale set in East Africa during the First World War.
Using traced photos, Breslin's snapshot style gets at the scenario's serio-comic complications.
Col. Blimp is not really a war movie, since it has no battle scenes, other than one excellent serio-comic sword fight.
As Sophie, the druggie flatmate, she brings the right level of emotional distance her part, a darkly moulded background eccentric typical of Leigh's serio-comic work.
They have a serio-comic essay in Slate about the divergent paths that former politicians take in the United States and Europe.
Pickford plays her customarily plucky heroine in a serio-comic role that borrows as much from Chaplin as it does the German expressionists of the period (check out that cinematography and the often-stunning chiaroscuro lighting).
This could lead into the territory covered by Pirandello in his play, 6 Characters in Search of an Author, and there is potential for a serio-comic production of the opera which could explore this.
Still, its characters are drawn so honestly, it continues to play as a decent serio-comic character study nearly twenty years later.
Derivatives
serio-comically
adverb
Each is at once elitist and popular, adept at serio-comically pressing the limits of the Spanish language's expressivity.
Example sentencesExamples
I almost always have a story of some incredibly bad behavior Ive witnessed and usually end by serio-comically thanking her for raising me to be a good girl.