How to Use ha-ha in a Sentence

ha-ha

noun
  • Not so much ha-ha funny as smart funny, which is probably for the best.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • But funny ha-ha peculiar, just like the director.
    — John Waters, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Is there anything in the wings at the IRS that will provide some guidance as to the taxable or nontaxable (ha-ha) nature of that lump sum?
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Brazilian fandom is a funny thing, both in its complexity — Brazil, as one of its great cultural figures once said, is not for beginners — and in the ha-ha sense.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 25 June 2026
  • Great roles and performances, but, ha-ha, Phoenix earned his first Academy Award for Joker in 2020.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Mar. 2026
  • He’s also involved in some dodgy side hustles, which leads to a lot of peripheral gunplay and tangential, ha-ha–bang-bang set pieces that feel cherry-picked from Coen’s back catalog.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Naked Gun showed that there remains a ceiling with broad comedies in the streaming era, specifically titles that aren’t hybrid (hybrid meaning a movie like Deadpool & Wolverine which is half superhero, half ha-ha).
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Workers repairing a ha-ha, a ditch traditionally used to contain livestock without interrupting the view across an estate, uncovered a tunnel entrance, along with Tudor-era artifacts including pottery, bones, and glass bottles.
    — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 15 June 2026

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