: characterized by insincerity, irony, or whimsical exaggeration
: with insincerity, irony, or whimsical exaggeration
Examples of tongue-in-cheek in a Sentence
Adverb
The whole interview was done tongue in cheek.
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James Factora, Them, 13 Dec. 2024
Birds Aren’t Real, by Peter McIndoe and Connor Gaydos
Like birds perched on a power line, this is a high-wire act, a performance-art piece in print, and an examination of the psychology that results in an ironic, tongue-in-cheek comic phenomenon.
—Brian Boone, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
Brian Grubb, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
Wearing a colorful beach hat emblazoned with hot dog icons, Stewart drew TV cameras and several dozen downtown merchants to her declaration — only slightly tongue in cheek — that Hard-Hittin’ New Britain deserves the title of alpha dog in the hot dog world.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2024
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Adjective
But that tongue-in-cheek approach is true to the spirit of Wicked, which is loosely based off the novel of the same name by Gregory Maguire, which is, in and of itself, loosely based on Frank L. Baum’s The Wizard of Oz.
—James Factora, Them, 13 Dec. 2024
Birds Aren’t Real, by Peter McIndoe and Connor Gaydos
Like birds perched on a power line, this is a high-wire act, a performance-art piece in print, and an examination of the psychology that results in an ironic, tongue-in-cheek comic phenomenon.
—Brian Boone, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
Adverb
There is no winking at the camera, no tongue in cheek — none of it.
—Brian Grubb, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
Wearing a colorful beach hat emblazoned with hot dog icons, Stewart drew TV cameras and several dozen downtown merchants to her declaration — only slightly tongue in cheek — that Hard-Hittin’ New Britain deserves the title of alpha dog in the hot dog world.
—Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2024
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“Tongue-in-cheek.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tongue-in-cheek. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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