snickery

adjective

Definition of snickerynext
as in flip

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snickery
  1. flip
  2. flippant
  3. amusing
  4. zany
  5. waggish
  6. clownish
  7. playful
  8. facetious
Adjective
  • Socks, toiletries, laundry detergent and flip flops are in need.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Democrats have long looked at Collins’s seat as a flip opportunity, but the centrist has scored decisive reelection wins against rivals across the aisle.
    Julia Manchester, The Hill, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of flip
Adjective
  • The flippant response to the assassination of a health care executive is a symptom of a far deeper societal wound — a systemic failure that threatens the very foundation of our democratic promise.
    Dave Catalfamo, New York Daily News, 19 Dec. 2024
  • If the question reads as flippant, it’s meant to be.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of flippant
Adjective
  • Other videos don’t end so super—with a range of different crashes resulting, which may seem amusing to watch.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Additional viewers found the segment to be amusing, with several enjoying the Port Authority joke.
    Caroline Thayer, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of amusing
Adjective
  • Procrastinating his one shopping task until the 11th hour, Howard spends Christmas Eve on a zany citywide hunt for the impossible-to-find Turbo Man action figure his son (Jake Lloyd) wants — and no amount of mall Santas, policemen or rival dads (Sinbad) can get in his way.
    Skyler Caruso, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • And so concludes another year and another zany season of The Masked Singer.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of zany
Adjective
  • 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
  • He’s left a distinctive stamp on the orchestra’s sound in the years since, whether declaiming the beginning of Mahler 5 with a preacher’s conviction or, as in a recent Ravinia concert, tossing off a ragtime solo with waggish virtuosity.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2024
Definition of waggish
Adjective
  • Its members' firm repudiation of the unqualified and clownish Matt Gaetz for attorney general shows that its members can still stiffen their sinews and summon up the courage to curb President-elect Donald Trump's appetite for surrounding himself with sycophantic boobs.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Before news of the repression broke, many Western media stories about Chechen Republic Head Ramzan Kadyrov portrayed him as a clownish dictator obsessed with his Instagram account.
    Layla Taimienova, Foreign Affairs, 10 May 2017
Definition of clownish
Adjective
  • Led by the resort’s resident marine biologist, you’ll soon be joined by playful pods of dolphins swimming alongside your boat.
    Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The waters of the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean draw pods of playful bottlenose dolphins that love to swim alongside boats and leap out of the water in graceful arcs.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of playful
Adjective
  • 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
  • Some also expressed facetious disdain for how much money Downey must have accepted to come back to Marvel, suspecting a lucrative deal.
    Angela Yang, NBC News, 28 July 2024
Definition of facetious
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