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tongue-in-cheek
Alternative clues for the word tongue-in-cheek
Word definitions for tongue-in-cheek in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context idiomatic English) Not intended seriously; jocular or humorous.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The tongue-in-cheek figure of speech is used to imply that a statement or other production is humorously or otherwise not seriously intended, and it should not be taken at face value. The facial expression typically indicates that one is joking or making ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a tongue-in-cheek rock video EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It is the trick of the big-stage musical number but applied to circus with finesse and much tongue-in-cheek humour. ▪ Kate's tongue-in-cheek interview was given ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1856, from phrase to speak with one's tongue in one's cheek "to speak insincerely" (1748), suggestive of sly irony or humorous insincerity, perhaps a stage trick to convey irony to the audience.\n\nHem! Pray, Sir, said he to the Bard, after thrusting his ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. cleverly amusing in tone; "a bantering tone"; "facetious remarks"; "tongue-in-cheek advice" [syn: bantering , facetious ] adv. in a bantering fashion; "he spoke to her banteringly" [syn: banteringly ] not seriously; "I meant it facetiously" [syn: facetiously ...
Usage examples of tongue-in-cheek.
Art of Diabetes Maintenance is meant as a whimsical, tongue-in-cheek title.
Or was it his artsy friend, Philippe, in one of those tongue-in-cheek, swaggering monologues of his?
Last summer Aejys had still been playing tongue-in-cheek head-games on Cedarbird that they all laughed about afterwards.
Like a low-budget horror film, Sherman's work revels in its tongue-in-cheek sensationalism, its ostentatious phoniness, its use of gross and sleazy special effects.