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Czarny humor
Czarny humor is black or gallows humour: comedy about death, illness and disaster. The phrase is a direct calque and is perfectly idiomatic. It is descriptive rather than pejorative in Polish.
Examples in context
Lekarze często mają czarny humor.
Doctors often have black humour.
Ten film to czysty czarny humor.
This film is pure black humour.
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