What is "japery"

Usage examples of "japery".

Unable to eat, hunt, or tolerate the japeries of the children, he tried to remove himself as a burden to the Minids by wandering off alone into a distant thicket on the plain.

If I didn’t know better I’d say you had a hand in the japery of Major Streiter’s statue.

Naturally I’m gravely concerned with the outbreak of violence and vandalism today, as epitomized by this really dreadful japery of the Park statue, but we can scarcely be said to suffer from a nutritional problem.

It had been satisfactory and wonderful to concoct the japery with Gates and Sugermann, Gleeby and Priar.

But whatever was going on with Cattilara was deathly serious, and no pretext for japery, no matter how the girl set Ista's teeth on edge.

Jimmy had clearly grown bored with the activity and even bored with the japery that had made the proceedings minimally tolerable.

A comic skit, really, with quick changes, slapstick, clown faces, and japery, lasting twenty minutes when I was really rolling.