snickery

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Adjective
  • With its secure flip cap and stainless steel body, the BlenderBottle Strada SHaker Cup is made to prevent spills while keeping your drink cold for hours.
    SELF, SELF, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The inspector saw a roach on a kitchen prep table, another on a flip top cookline cooler and two more promenading about the kitchen floor.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • This isn’t a flippant analogy; during the Indian mutiny of 1857, British soldiers looted the Taj Mahal, removing rare gems and lapis lazuli.
    Ralph Leonard, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
  • My reasons: Numerous publications, including the Sentinel, have pointed out his flippant disregard for the criminal behavior of his players, with more than 30 players arrested during his time with the Gators.
    Letters to the Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • In another amusing shot, Tallulah wears a tank top emblazoned with a photo of her father's face in his younger days.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Among the speakers were several coaches, including Evan Chalmers, who provided a variety of amusing quips and tales about his Laguna Beach High classmate and multiple-sports teammate.
    Richard Dunn, Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • At least that’s the case at Factory Obscura, a zany immersive experience that’s fun for all ages.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The zany delights of Willem Dafoe: Talking Nosferatu, his own vampire turn, and his pure joy of acting The prop was one of many prosthetic pieces that, combined together, contributed to Skarsgård’s almost unrecognizable transformation into the vampire.
    EW.com, EW.com, 23 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
  • Mike was a Sagittarius: adventurous, open-minded, playful, spontaneous, and reluctant to commit to anything.
    Erika W. Smith, Vogue, 11 Feb. 2025
  • At the beginning of the shoot, the team was in a good mood and almost playful.
    Jamie Lang, Variety, 10 Feb. 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 21 Feb. 2025.

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