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also joky
as in jocular
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Recent Examples of jokey
Burr was jokey and conspiratorial, warm and whispery one moment, explosive the next, but strategically.
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Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Reynolds replied in his characteristic jokey way, though his comment elicited uncomfortable laughter and stunned looks from Kevin Costner and other celebrities in the audience.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2025
His elegant dispatch was a distinct departure from the jokey writing that had previously filled the magazine.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Her family, for instance, wouldn’t let anyone get away with any jokey remarks about Arabs.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 26 Jan. 2025
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Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Reynolds replied in his characteristic jokey way, though his comment elicited uncomfortable laughter and stunned looks from Kevin Costner and other celebrities in the audience.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2025
His elegant dispatch was a distinct departure from the jokey writing that had previously filled the magazine.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Her family, for instance, wouldn’t let anyone get away with any jokey remarks about Arabs.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 26 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jokey
Adjective
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Could all this jocular, misogynistic vulgarity influence anybody?—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2025
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For years, Marvel films worked this jocular-fantastic angle, in pointed contrast to the grimdark expectorations of their DC counterparts, who were drowning in a morass of runaway budgets and brooding slo-mo.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Once she’s done blending, her full glam results are stunning yet intriguing, with a playful feminine hue.—
Celeste Polanco,
Essence,
24 Apr. 2025
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This playful, colorful apartment block designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser ignores straight lines entirely and proves that architecture can be joyful rebellion.—
Lilah Ramzi,
Vogue,
24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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He's been portrayed as a ruthless businessman, an evil scientist, and a vain politician, while actors have played the supervillain with differing strains of campy flash and genuine menace.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
12 Apr. 2025
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Snow sings about getting her princess groove back, butts heads with her Evil Queen stepmother (a campy Gal Gadot) and gets a little help from her short new friends.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The sense of incidence with which May ’68 plays out, far in the background, speaks to a film for which the political is of little importance, or at least one that reflects the political through wry non-confrontations.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
20 Feb. 2025
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The dialogue is alternately wry and poetic, trafficking in a deadpan magical realism, involving its bustling cast of colorful characters in a circular story, with events revisited via shifting perspectives and time frames.—
Jason Bailey,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Britt Lower, Patricia Arquette, and Christopher Walken co-star in this incredibly smart and witty sci-fi drama.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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Heckerling's 1995 film, a loose adaptation of Jane Austen's witty novel of young love, Emma, centers on Silverstone's sunny, good-hearted, yet at times slightly daft heroine.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The waggish jeer that subverts the Reich Chancellery, designed by Adolf Hitler's chief architect, Albert Speer, must have sent the woman who chastises children for flatulent folly into a tizzy.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes,
12 Jan. 2025
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After publishing a New York Times piece about grieving her late husband, the waggish writer received an email from a kindly old acquaintance who was also recently widowed.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA TODAY,
24 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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For fans of marmalade sandwiches and whimsical bear adventures, this Notting Hill property may feel oddly familiar—and for good reason.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
22 Apr. 2025
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Style it under a whimsical net canopy for a private reading nook in bedrooms and playrooms.—
Clint Davis,
People.com,
21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The art of bluffing in itself, which is what the movie is all about, isn’t something to be flippant about.—
Lily Ford,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 Feb. 2025
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Claiming ignorance or hyper-fixating on a flippant detail from the past gets us nowhere.—
Claire Franken,
TVLine,
23 Feb. 2025
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“Jokey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jokey. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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