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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jocularity
Noun
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The story works less as a Hollywood satire than as a survival thriller.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025 -
Scottish actor Capaldi, the twelfth Doctor in the Doctor Who universe (2013–2017), won several awards, including a British Academy Television Award, for his performance as Malcolm Tucker in the beloved satire The Thick of It (2005–2012).—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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The suspects are using a spoof number and identifying themselves as Officers from the Peoria Police Department.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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Former presidential candidates in election years sought to be pranksters (Hillary Clinton, in a somewhat strained spoof, challenged then-Sen. Barack Obama to a bowling night).—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
1 Apr. 2025
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Where Wilson went slow, Kosky goes fast; his performers engage in vaudevillian prancing, slapstick scampering, Chaplinesque waddling, and acrobatic clambering.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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Every so often, the E.R. is visited by rats, little symbols of disrepair and instigators of slapstick freak-outs.—
James Poniewozik,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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In Terrence McNally’s The Ritz, a farce set in a gay club not unlike the Continental Baths, Moreno plays Googie Gomez, an outrageous singer with dreams of stardom.—
Mark Seliger,
Vulture,
7 Apr. 2025
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Get your popcorn ready to watch the next act of this play — whether tragedy or farce — on April 2. Related Articles St. Paul economist and writer Edward Lotterman can be reached at stpaul@edlotterman.com.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
23 Mar. 2025
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Mendoza didn’t begin performing until 2016, although she had been involved in the backstage production side of burlesque for some time before then.—
J.M. Banks,
Kansas City Star,
7 Apr. 2025
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Elsewhere, Abercrombie’s pastorals are almost like burlesques of plein air painting.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
ARTnews.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Imagination was key to the films that Hess made after Napoleon Dynamite: the soulful Nacho Libre, in which Jack Black as a novice monk and Lucha Libre fan gave a fully rounded characterization, and the ingenious fantasy-fiction parody Gentlemen Broncos.—
Armond White,
National Review,
16 Apr. 2025
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Those include the parodies of commercials and public access programs that begin episodes, giving us introductions to Judaism and the French-Canadian mobsters and a particular brand of coffee in ways that, like so much in the series, feel fleetingly amusing rather than coherently realized.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Jocularity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jocularity. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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