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
  • The flip tax was an agreement the Chargers made with the league in 2015 as part of the pact to move the team to Los Angeles and is similar to the deal the Las Vegas Raiders made with the NFL before moving from Oakland, California.
    Michael Ozanian, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The Row’s pre-spring 2025 collection makes a case for slouchy pants with lacy dresses, even styled underneath sweaters — paired with flip flops, no less.
    Kaitlin Clapinski, refinery29.com, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of flip
Adjective
  • That includes Andrew Yancy, an extremely tall and flippant former Miami detective who was reassigned to work for the sheriff’s department in the Keys until he got temporarily suspended from that job, too.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2024
  • On the Kyle Meredith With… podcast, Hale said that his character is supposed to represent the flippant, sexist culture of the 1970s.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of flippant
Adjective
  • Though there are many examples that are less amusing.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Hausman notes that the algorithm does not work perfectly, and like modern chatbots, the robots sometimes fail in surprising and amusing ways.
    Will Knight, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of amusing
Adjective
  • Pushing characters into zany situations because of their stubborn traits is a sitcom tradition.
    Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
  • There’s no one better at capturing the zaniest highs and darkest lows of the soap opera genre, and Beauty in Black, his new Netflix series, is no exception.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 31 Oct. 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
  • Over the coming days, the owners of Four Seasons Total Landscaping did their patriotic duty and cashed in on their temporary notoriety, selling souvenirs to commemorate the fiasco; to Trump’s detractors, the debacle epitomized the clownish incompetence that had defined his presidency.
    Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Characters like Felix and Oswald have kind of an unfortunate connection to theater insofar as they’re associated with blackface minstrelsy—the notoriously racist form of stage performance where actors would blacken their faces, wear white gloves, and perform clownish antics.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 9 Oct. 2024
Definition of clownish
Adjective
  • Partners should do their best to research something novel and playful that piques both of their interest.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The highlight for me was watching and listening closely to Joan Robinson (Post-Keynesian diva) duking it out with Frank Hahn (Neoclassical divo), in playful but serious jabs and thrusts.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of playful
Adjective
  • 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
  • Maher’s power is the fascination his facetious commentary holds for other, less secure pundits.
    Armond White, National Review, 7 June 2024
Definition of facetious
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