gracioso

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Recent Examples of gracioso Maurice Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso and Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2. Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2022 The same praise could be heaped upon Maurice Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso, which opened the evening. Paul Hodgins, Orange County Register, 19 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gracioso
Noun
  • Pugs is dressed like a jester, poor kid.
    Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
  • If there’s an argument for chucking reason to the wind and just enjoying the vibes, then the experimental musician Moses Sumney, as the jester Feste, is best at making it.
    Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • With the frequently audible director alternating between frat boy giddiness and genuine concern at Sheen’s antics, the actor appears entirely in control, a product of seven years of professed sobriety.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Despite specifying various antics with pills, a belt-as-noose, and a gun, Cloud has given him no real demons to explore.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Her goal is to start a women’s consciousness-raising group, and her efforts have brought together a motley, inquisitive quintet.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Kaan kaan wu, with its motley of melds, is where these two tiles from different suits can be used in a clean-sweeping hand.
    Rudy Lee, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
Noun
  • Traditional software is often cheaper, faster and more reliable when a solution is rules-based and needs fool-proof outputs.
    Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Here’s why the whole enterprise might be a fool’s errand.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Much like his namesake, the scaramouch, the Mooch masquerades as a useful idiot and a sly schemer, performing both roles while never forgetting to enthrall the audience and, most important, the boss.
    Tiana Lowe, National Review, 28 July 2017
Noun
  • Instead of the buffo landlord Benoit coming for the rent, the four Bohemians impersonate him themselves in a skit that was a little beyond the L.A. cast’s comic skills.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Alessandro Corbelli brought seasoned basso-buffo authority to the manipulative Alfonso.
    John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 18 Feb. 2018

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“Gracioso.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gracioso. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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