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also joky
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Recent Examples of jokey
Online, jokey provocations feigned a detachment from real life.
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Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
Burr was jokey and conspiratorial, warm and whispery one moment, explosive the next, but strategically.
—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
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Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
Burr was jokey and conspiratorial, warm and whispery one moment, explosive the next, but strategically.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jokey
Adjective
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The film explicitly acknowledges that their sibling rivalry is very Thor and Loki, though the dynamic here is different with Wilson playing uptight preppy to Momoa’s jocular biker viking.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2024
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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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But playful, electronic reimaginings of Grandma’s feel-good tunes and funny pop culture sound bites weren’t getting us anywhere past Havre de Grace.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
23 June 2025
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Rowan is a funny, playful, and high-spirited young boy who keeps everyone around him smiling.—
MARE Staff,
Boston Herald,
22 June 2025
Adjective
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The campy sense of mischief that made Gerard Johnstone’s 2023 hit M3GAN so enjoyable asserts itself intermittently in M3GAN 2.0, a logical title for a follow-up to the thriller about a murderous robot.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
25 June 2025
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Six years after the release of the campy cult-classic film A Simple Favor, the original cast—including Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick, Henry Golding, and Andrew Rannells—reunited for the sequel, Another Simple Favor, which is now streaming on Prime Video.—
Glamour,
Glamour,
15 May 2025
Adjective
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He’s regarded as someone who’s down-to-earth, a tremendous teammate and a dressing room cutup thanks to his quick and wry sense of humour.—
Daniel Nugent-Bowman,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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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
Adjective
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No, really — with her sharp and witty books like this one and The Partly-Cloudy Patriot, Vowell does for history what Neil deGrasse Tyson does for science.—
Brian Boone,
Vulture,
18 June 2025
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The marketing folks may be pushing it as the first real rom-com in years, but Song wisely and adeptly sidesteps all the tropes of the typical rom-com to deliver a smart, witty film about finding dates and mates in 21st century America.—
Scott Phillips,
Forbes.com,
11 June 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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Pick up a map at the Visitor Center, then walk the town in search of each whimsical, photo-worthy piece of public art.—
Erin Gifford,
Southern Living,
20 June 2025
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Each one features a different whimsical dinner guest—a ladybug, striped beetle, and june bug.—
Angela Tafoya,
Architectural Digest,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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In turn, much of My Face Hurts From Smiling is downright flippant.—
Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
27 June 2025
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Her flippant attitude toward school, her refusal to talk through her grief, and her slippery grasp on the concepts of right and wrong can all be traced to that fateful night in this garage.—
Stacia Brown,
Vulture,
25 June 2025
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“Jokey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jokey. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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