snickery

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snickery
Adjective
  • There’s something so hilariously flippant about Taylor’s mean streak these days.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Given that the league’s collective bargaining agreement expires at the end of this month, maybe the commissioner shouldn’t have been so flippant.
    Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The premise has the potential for slapstick silliness, as an incompetent Seoul family fumbles its way through opening a hunting lodge in the Korean countryside.
    Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Later, there is caper-like comedy at a funeral home, which then sobers in a poignant tete-a-tete between Yun-ji and Min-yeong, astute revelations of the broken homes that shaped our young heroines, a climactic riot of slapstick destruction at an emergency school meeting and more.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Riccoboni doesn’t take himself too seriously, admitting that his science-fiction picture book serves up otherworldly tales that some might find only mildly amusing.
    Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Nov. 2025
  • The film tells a quietly amusing story that offers a more-than-realistic dive into one of the most iconic and thoughtful young men in world history – a man who essentially invented modern angst long before the internet existed.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Emily Ratajkowski's interpretation of Marge Simpson from The Simpsons at Klum's 2015 Heidi Halloween was perfectly zany for the occasion.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Burnett’s out-of-costume persona—approachable, winning, game—earned her a kind of good will with audiences that her zany sketch material alone might not have.
    Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
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
Adjective
  • Those long familiar with Pratt’s clownish agent-of-chaos persona both onscreen and on their social feeds may find his latest role disorienting.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The combo together ensures that the lip doesn't look clownish.
    Sarah Hoffmann, Allure, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • And based on the tight bonds he's formed with his costars (not to mention lots of playful, platonic PDA), the feeling is very mutual.
    Julie Jordan, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Outfielder Kiké Hernández had some fun at Drake’s expense and took a playful shot at Drizzy when addressing the Dodger Stadium crowd on the mic.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Huff had one quarterback pressure Sunday (being facetious).
    Matt Barrows, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This sounds facetious but is not at all.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
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“Snickery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snickery. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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