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also joky
as in jocular
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Recent Examples of jokey
The conventionality that Gunn resorts to includes a subplot with the Green Lantern League, a jokey crew of XYZ-men knock-offs.
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Armond White, National Review, 11 July 2025
It’s packed with curling memorabilia and jokey artifacts: pin badges, curling stone statues, a Worst End trophy (complete with protruding horse’s butt), strategy whiteboards, and a sign revealing the Scottish Curler’s Grace.
—Tim Chester, AFAR Media, 16 Apr. 2025
Disposable, anonymous, soulless, jokey slaughter.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
The jokey, gleefully profane lyrics are stimulating in the moment but then quickly forgotten, like novelty songs in a clever college cabaret.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
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Armond White, National Review, 11 July 2025
It’s packed with curling memorabilia and jokey artifacts: pin badges, curling stone statues, a Worst End trophy (complete with protruding horse’s butt), strategy whiteboards, and a sign revealing the Scottish Curler’s Grace.
—Tim Chester, AFAR Media, 16 Apr. 2025
Disposable, anonymous, soulless, jokey slaughter.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
The jokey, gleefully profane lyrics are stimulating in the moment but then quickly forgotten, like novelty songs in a clever college cabaret.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jokey
Adjective
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Modern American popular culture contains many jocular characters that resemble this folkloric bird, who is delightfully impervious to pain, from cartoon characters such as the Road Runner – an actual bird – to the foulmouthed, self-regenerating antihero Deadpool.—
Perin Gürel,
The Conversation,
19 Aug. 2025
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The incomprehensibility of it all, of every awful thing wreaking havoc at once, has Gus in a state of jocular shock.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
Adjective
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Sweeney and Dickson have been experimenting with more playful sartorial risks in the few months too; sailor chic via Coperni, subversive corporate attire with a pantsless suit and tie combo via Jean Paul Gaultier, and silky power suiting by Oscar de la Renta.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
1 Oct. 2025
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January’s energy is heightening your creative side and invites a playful, loving energy into your interactions.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Yeah Yeahs as they were introduced, setting up a campy whodunit with a 1980s look.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
29 Sep. 2025
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While the obvious draw to the film is campy, gory coyote action, the couple is effusive about each other’s ability to pull off heavier moments during the family’s arc.—
William Earl,
Variety,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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After Erling Haaland scored his 50th Champions League goal a fortnight ago, a wry tweet went viral.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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In the video, Lynch also incorporated some wry fourth-wall break deadpans to the camera, capturing the essence of her feelings.—
Tabitha Parent,
PEOPLE,
30 Sep. 2025
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As more viewers saw the video on TikTok, thousands of people shared their own witty responses and comments.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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Alice Babette Toklas, the ideal reader who became Stein’s wife, made a name for herself by writing a witty cookbook that included a friend’s recipe for hashish fudge.—
Judith Thurman,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 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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Other stars, such as Kylie Jenner and Paris Hilton, added whimsical twists and early 2000s nods to their front-row beauty at Haider Ackermann’s first presentation for Tom Ford and Isabel Marant’s spring 2026 show, respectively.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
3 Oct. 2025
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Some whimsical examples include the Woolly Worm Festival in North Carolina, the East Texas Yamboree in Texas, and Blairsville Sorghum Festival in Georgia.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
3 Oct. 2025
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Worse for Wilson, Sherman's Hall of Fame broadcast teammate, Tony Gonzalez, bordered on flippant in dismissing Wilson's candidacy.—
Mike Sando,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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Kimmel, who has spent most of his late-night career as a flippant but not particularly scandalous figure, acknowledged just how scary things had become that the White House might take aim at him.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Jokey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jokey. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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