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Recent Examples of antic
Adjective
For all the novel’s antic vignettes about magic flutes and egg children and dragon soup, there’s something deeply private about The Stone Door, an insistence that no reader, no outsider, be fully allowed to understand its plot. Celia Bell july 22, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025 The characters do antic, no-stakes things that require little explanation and often defy logic. Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 17 July 2025
Noun
In the trailer, the three men get right to their antics with a broken vase, hiding a dead body, a dynamic SWAT entry, and running in an attempt to escape. Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 30 Sep. 2025 Despite a relatively quiet lull in spicy antics from morning TV's sassiest couple, Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa engaged in a bit of light torso touching on the latest episode of Live With Kelly & Mark. Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for antic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for antic
Adjective
  • Of course not, but that’s the whole point of the humorous commercial.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The video serves as a humorous response and a technical showcase following the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)’s humanoid robot demonstration.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This barrel chair nails that sweet spot between playful and polished.
    Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The playful routine earned high praise from the judges, who were swept up in the performance.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The goofy tree-imitator Pokémon, whose rock typing has come off as a prank since its early second generation introduction, finally fulfills its destiny as a grass type thanks to this new battling phenomenon.
    Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • These special relationships can be filled with everything from fun and joy to cruel pranks and teasing.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In 2023, American High launched a digital comedy ecosystem, creating short-form content for social media with a batch of young comedic actors that the company can then funnel through its film production pipeline.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The comedic duo became popular in the 1960s, appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show 36 times, and in 2007 were honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
    Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The fast food giant announced the return of the classic Halloween item, which makes the perfect vessel for storing candy that is picked up while making the rounds of trick-or-treating.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Basically, a kid goes out trick-or-treating on Halloween.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The novel reminds us of how funny Krasznahorkai can be.
    James Wood, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Karlsson is very likable, funny, smart and charismatic.
    Josh Yohe, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • His call to the Coast Guard upon sighting Humphrey resulted in a comical conversation.
    Helen Harlan, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Parton then got comical with a reference to a fake AI image being circulated of her being visited by a fellow country music superstar, supposedly in the hospital.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • However, Mediawan is cautious about expecting the same level of recognition in international markets, instead betting on the narrative and visual universality that initially propelled Tran’s comic series up Gaul’s publishing charts.
    Ben Croll, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
  • That may sound unfathomable to any non-comic reader who watched Steven Yeun's Mark Grayson get bludgeoned, maimed, and nearly disemboweled (sorry, Atom Eve) in an episode-long, cities-spanning fight with Thragg's berzerker warrior, Conquest (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Antic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antic. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.

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