SNICKERY Synonyms: 91 Similar and Opposite Words

snickery

adjective

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Adjective

But there is a saying in the military that leadership sets the tone, and when the most senior leaders are flippant at best, and cruel at worst, many will understand that to be the permissible standard.

— Andrea N. Goldstein, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026
Kyles suggested, recalling her immediate response to the president’s seemingly flippant remark.

— Chris Quintana, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of flippant

Adjective

Clive Ibizugbe, who operates under the pseudonym Big Groove, ate his way through the city, sharing the journey in his slapstick style with more than 2 million followers.

— Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Tonally, the film is darkly comic, but the violence never feels slapstick.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of slapstick

Adjective

The show is generally amusing, sometimes very funny and easy to watch as an evolving story of family.

— Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
That closeness, however, has made the internet’s speculation about their secret romantic arrangement particularly amusing to Bunny, who tells PEOPLE that there is no hidden relationship between the three.

— Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of amusing

Adjective

Curry went on to a successful, varied career, immediately seeking a departure from the zany role with which he’d become identified.

— Lisa de los Reyes, HollywoodReporter, 26 Aug. 2026
Big Brother has certainly had a zany cast of characters over the years, but the characters that really matter are the casts themselves.

— Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 June 2026

Definition of zany

Adjective

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
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

Definition of waggish

Adjective

The composure of Amélie, and the decidedly wild and clownish manner in which she’s painted, can’t be tamed into order, elegance, or beauty.

— Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
In each of those projects, Johnson created a role for himself, typically a clownish dreamer.

— Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of clownish

Adjective

Eisenberg’s playful comedy, which just premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, is sometimes a musical and occasionally a thriller.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2026
At a gathering with other artists, a seemingly playful party game culminates in an excruciating monologue about child abuse.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of playful

Adjective

The excess of emotion often scans as winkingly facetious, a dramatization to demonstrate just how deeply a person loves books.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 July 2026
The first thing he was asked, by another reporter who witnessed the debate, was a facetious question of whether he’s given MVP any thought.

— Jared Weiss, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2026

Definition of facetious

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