as in wisecrack
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as in joking
to make jokes
wisecracked to hide his nervousness during the auditions
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Noun
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And yes, that dollar figure is the 77th million wisecrack over Jimbo Fisher’s buyout.—
David Whitley,
The Tennessean,
22 Dec. 2024 -
Chock-full of laugh-out-loud quips and wisecracks, Susan Sarandon, Christine Baranski and Cheryl Hines also join in on the fun in the boisterous 2017 sequel to Bad Moms (2016).—
Lydia Price,
People.com,
22 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Nile and Bernard seemed like best friends, always joking and very excited.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
22 Dec. 2024
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Not just the kind of vaudevillian two guys joking around with each other on stage, but even just as individual comedians.—
Justin Koreis,
Rolling Stone,
21 Dec. 2024
Noun
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At times laugh-out-loud funny, the film explores the effects Johnson’s journey has had on his life and those around him, including Johnson’s father and teenage son.—
Addie Morfoot,
Variety,
1 Jan. 2025
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Speaking of funnies, stop publishing ones that aren’t funny!—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
7 Feb. 2024
Noun
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Whatever cranky conservative quip Allen fires off is sanded down by the balance Dennings brings to the breakfast table.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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Comments ranged from playful quips to outright laughter.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Matthew Rankin’s latest surreal comedy, between hilarious drollery and bitter disillusionment.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
18 Dec. 2024
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His ambition and synthetic public persona are the butt of countless withering drolleries.—
Giles Harvey,
The New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2024
Noun
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That is kind of a tongue-in-cheek witticism amongst those who do this for a living.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
18 Dec. 2024
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Big as the performance is, Stiller isn’t alone: Writer-director-star Eric Schaeffer also pillages shamelessly from the Sundance playbook of whimsy, giving himself the lion’s share of irony-laden pickup lines and depressive witticisms about the pointlessness of romance.—
Sean Malin,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2024
Noun
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The fake laugh would be ‘gasp gasp,’ a kind of inhale.—
Susan Morrison,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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Rivers said with a laugh before his Bucks’ faced Thibodeau’s Knicks at Madison Square Garden.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
12 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Speaking over Zoom, Vidal told me that in 2019 many people took Trump’s suggestion about buying Greenland as a joke.—
John Cassidy,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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Humor is a helpful tool in dealing with tension and stress, so making jokes about an incident that can help manage the feelings of cognitive dissonance and helplessness news like this can elicit.—
Callum Booth,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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