snickery

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Adjective
  • Chick lit was flippant and fizzy and fun, above all, as effervescent and guiltless as a vodka soda.
    Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 4 May 2026
  • During his Monday night Daily Show episode, the political comic blasted the POTUS’ flippant attitude toward his largely unfavorable military decisions in the SWANA region.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 30 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Performers were often white people who donned blackface to mock Black people through song, dance and slapstick comedy.
    A.D. Carson, The Conversation, 6 May 2026
  • Elsewhere in the episode, Rodrigo starred in a slapstick-heavy sketch about a 1980s soap opera where people keep tripping and violently falling down stairs in increasingly absurd ways.
    Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 3 May 2026
Adjective
  • There’s a tension between the update’s good intentions and the tendency of musical comedy to traffic in amusing caricatures.
    Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
  • Providing the voice of one of the many alien characters is Martin Scorsese, who has some amusing moments with his typically rapid-fire delivery as a nervous street food vendor whom Djarin pumps for information.
    Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026
Adjective
  • The peculiarities of these heartbreak goggles fueled a zany Saturday Night Live sketch, a standout from last night’s solid episode that saw Olivia Rodrigo doing double duty as host and musical guest.
    Paula Mejía, The Atlantic, 3 May 2026
  • Your task is to set the fastest time through zany courses set in and around parking garages.
    Adam Ismail, The Drive, 29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The show is gloriously nonsensical: a vague excuse to watch a revolving door of spotlight-hungry pussycats prancing their paws to Webber’s waggish earworms.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2026
  • 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
Adjective
  • The Black characters that appeared on-screen closely resembled the clownish stereotypes popularized by the minstrels.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The clownish dance is a Fortnite video game gesture, and involves making an L shape with fingers, pressing it to one’s forehead, then high kicking from side to side.
    Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Enjoy romance, fun outings and playful times with kids.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 18 May 2026
  • Lagasse wants Emeril’s to make the case that New Orleans cuisine can be playful, regional, historically grounded and technically elite all at once.
    Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Adjective
  • His posture is authoritative without being imposing, his voice warm without being facetious.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Powell was, of course, being facetious, as the low-quality videos featured the actor as a teen running and jumping in the street and lip-syncing to the song while wearing a yacht captain’s hat.
    Rachel DeSantis, PEOPLE, 17 Nov. 2025
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“Snickery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snickery. Accessed 21 May. 2026.

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