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Recent Examples of tongue-in-cheek
Opened in 2021 by homegrown young entrepreneur Min Dai, a champion for Beaumont as a sponsor of the city’s annual Mural Festival, his restaurant exudes Instagrammable funky charm with its tongue-in-cheek neon signs and vibrant artwork.
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Cynthia Drake, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2025
In a series of tongue-in-cheek TikTok videos purporting to highlight #WomenInMaleFields, female users are sharing stories of negative experiences dating men.
—Philip Galanes, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
But a tongue-in-cheek Heard Island government social media outlet is monitoring the situation.
—John Bacon, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2025
The president’s allies have argued those instances were all made in a joking or tongue-in-cheek fashion.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 31 Mar. 2025
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Cynthia Drake, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2025
In a series of tongue-in-cheek TikTok videos purporting to highlight #WomenInMaleFields, female users are sharing stories of negative experiences dating men.
—Philip Galanes, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
But a tongue-in-cheek Heard Island government social media outlet is monitoring the situation.
—John Bacon, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2025
The president’s allies have argued those instances were all made in a joking or tongue-in-cheek fashion.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 31 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tongue-in-cheek
Adjective
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The art of bluffing in itself, which is what the movie is all about, isn’t something to be flippant about.—
Lily Ford,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 Feb. 2025
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Claiming ignorance or hyper-fixating on a flippant detail from the past gets us nowhere.—
Claire Franken,
TVLine,
23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Given this is an AMA, there is no clear way to tell if Perkins was being facetious or not.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
5 Mar. 2025
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That quip no longer seems so facetious as a son of exiles who fled their homeland prepares to become America’s top diplomat.—
Patrick Oppmann,
CNN,
8 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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And perhaps the most frustrating and ironic aspect about these potential cuts is that in the scheme of the U.S. government’s overall budget, Mars gets much more of the planetary science budget than Venus.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Coogler finds that very ironic, given his own connection to this sequence.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
18 Apr. 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
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The dialogue is alternately wry and poetic, trafficking in a deadpan magical realism, involving its bustling cast of colorful characters in a circular story, with events revisited via shifting perspectives and time frames.—
Jason Bailey,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Lee’s cynical cardsharp of a brother, Julius (Jacob Elordi), was meant to be part of that dream move, but the call of gambling takes Julius to Las Vegas instead.—
Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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Now, posters are more cynical and there’s a fatalist bent to the conversations that wasn’t there before.—
Fortesa Latifi,
Rolling Stone,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The command center overhead stocked a whole town’s worth (450 tonnes) of equipment — including bunk beds, dry toilets, water, and other supplies — ready to be mobilized into the tunnels below by way of dolly carts.—
Jessi Jezewska Stevens,
The Dial,
24 Apr. 2025
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Since this kit is intended for use with regular polish, consider this Sally Hansen Insta-Dry quick dry polish set.—
Jené Luciani Sena,
FOXNews.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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An especially poignant moment was when a close friend provided a check with the payee line left blank, demonstrating immense trust and support.—
Geri Stengel,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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As the world mourns the death of Pope Francis, a poignant video from Easter Sunday is being remembered as the pontiff's final farewell.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Tongue-in-cheek.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tongue-in-cheek. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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