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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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Like sparkling citrus that feels like late-summer light, warm vanilla and orchard tones for autumn’s cozy neutrals, and playful gourmand notes that give glossy, indulgent energy.—
Allure Editors,
Allure,
10 Sep. 2025
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Known for vibrant color, upcycled materials, and a playful yet political spirit, his work captures the joy and resilience of migration stories.—
Karissa Mitchell,
Essence,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Glee is aggressively rewatchable — a series that is somehow poignant, brilliantly campy, and hilarious while also being so dated that it should never be made again.—
Catherine Mhloyi,
Them.,
15 Sep. 2025
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Equal parts creepy and campy, Ultra Skelly is a wickedly fun way to raise your Halloween game from festive to frightful.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The subtlety of Akerman’s concept and the wry tenderness of her approach are, however, merely a start.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
10 Sep. 2025
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The movie is a wry look at the petty foibles of life, the fears and neuroses that can impede a person’s path to fulfillment and enlightenment.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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His witty, sarcastic, and often controversial commentary is the soundtrack to a generation of wrestling fans.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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Bazooka Joe invited 12 star athletes for a new collaboration, which combines the original theme of Joe delivering witty jokes with an informative component involving each sport.—
Shane Young,
Forbes.com,
8 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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Johnson Hartig, the brand's CEO and Creative Director, whose whimsical graphics, collage-effect embellishments, and historical references are core to the brand ethos, also met the moment in today's fraught political and cultural environment with his show.—
Roxanne Robinson,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Cardi's body art is significantly brighter and more colorful thanks to Schene's additional touch-ups to her decade-old tattoo, which included a whimsical hot pink butterfly, several new peacock feathers and flowers, among other eccentric details.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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That might seem a bit flippant, but LIHTC projects are glitzy, new, and often incorporate all sorts of bells and whistles.—
Roger Valdez,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Where internet trolls often come off as flippant or spiteful, there is a relentless sense of play and mastery of language in even McNally’s most needling posts.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Jokey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jokey. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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