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
  • Likewise, the Reverso’s clever flip face came out of a need for polo players to protect the glass of their timekeepers while playing the high-octane sport.
    Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Socks, toiletries, laundry detergent and flip flops are in need.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of flip
Adjective
  • The fact that she was sent home first (and met her elimination with a characteristically flippant and dismissive attitude).
    EW.com, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The five words that make up the album title aren't random or flippant.
    Melonee Hurt, The Tennessean, 16 May 2024
Definition of flippant
Adjective
  • Picaresque, amusing, and brisk, this is a worldly hangout novel of 21st-century manners.
    Vogue, Vogue, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Jeon Seok-ho is consistently amusing as Woo-seok, an excitable small-time criminal who joins Jun-ho in the search for the island.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of amusing
Adjective
  • After Stern retired in 2014, the code was relaxed, allowing for progressively zanier ’fits.
    Maya Singer, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Bong being Bong — and judging from the colorfully zany trailer — this adaptation of an Edward Ashton novel will likely make class warfare a key theme.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
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
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of clownish
Adjective
  • The duo of actresses have had a playful rivalry after the Modern Family actress lost her Griselda Emmy nomination to Foster last year.
    Luke Chinman, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Despite the playful teasing, Gomez credited the men for her presence at the evening’s awards ceremony.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of playful
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
Definition of facetious
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