snickery

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snickery
Adjective
  • Still, the dead of winter temps didn’t stop him from rocking a pair of flip flops.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Likewise, the Reverso’s clever flip face came out of a need for polo players to protect the glass of their timekeepers while playing the high-octane sport.
    Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 26 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The fact that she was sent home first (and met her elimination with a characteristically flippant and dismissive attitude).
    EW.com, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The five words that make up the album title aren't random or flippant.
    Melonee Hurt, The Tennessean, 16 May 2024
Adjective
  • The comedy is very much a love letter to South L.A., offering pointed and amusing commentary on gentrification.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The film centers on Clémence, a quiet yet amusing Parisian, who had a complicated childhood.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The set-up almost sounds like a zany comedy, but sometimes fact is actually stranger than fiction.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Those kinds of connections are everywhere in this wonderfully zany sport.
    Tyler Kepner, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
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
  • Redheads often fielded comments related to having a hot temper, being clownish, weirdness, Irishness, not capable of being in the sun, being wild (among women), wimpy (among men), and intellectually superior.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2025
  • As vice-president, Kamala Harris was generally regarded as unimpressive and slightly clownish, with her banal repetitions and too-frequent outbursts of too-exuberant laughter.
    Avi Nelson, Boston Herald, 30 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Demure and Mindful At Liam's Den & Bubble Bar inside the Grand Canal Shoppes at the Venetian Resort inside the Palazzo Tower in Las Vegas, this cocktail is light, playful, and sweet with just the right level of tang — much like romance.
    Aly Walansky, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Regular nail maintenance not only protects your surfaces but also your skin from their playful scratches.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Trump has been pushing an imperialist vision that includes U.S. acquisition of Greenland, Panama, and — on a more facetious note — Canada.
    Andrew Solender, Axios, 7 Jan. 2025
  • 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
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“Snickery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snickery. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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