snickery

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for snickery
Adjective
  • There’s something so hilariously flippant about Taylor’s mean streak these days.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Given that the league’s collective bargaining agreement expires at the end of this month, maybe the commissioner shouldn’t have been so flippant.
    Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Later, there is caper-like comedy at a funeral home, which then sobers in a poignant tete-a-tete between Yun-ji and Min-yeong, astute revelations of the broken homes that shaped our young heroines, a climactic riot of slapstick destruction at an emergency school meeting and more.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The whole this is very slapstick and irreverent, and the story is advanced almost exclusively by wacky deus ex machinas.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Well, in some ways a lot of Dylan’s fakery of his own bio has always been very amusing.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Beyond the amusing jokes, Carlile’s point seems to be that Mitchell doesn’t need to be the world’s most flagrant empath to be one of its greatest healers.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Emily Ratajkowski's interpretation of Marge Simpson from The Simpsons at Klum's 2015 Heidi Halloween was perfectly zany for the occasion.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Burnett’s out-of-costume persona—approachable, winning, game—earned her a kind of good will with audiences that her zany sketch material alone might not have.
    Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
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
  • Those long familiar with Pratt’s clownish agent-of-chaos persona both onscreen and on their social feeds may find his latest role disorienting.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The combo together ensures that the lip doesn't look clownish.
    Sarah Hoffmann, Allure, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Puma sneakers bring a sleek, sporty vibe with metallic silver accents, while the Lucky Step sneakers add playful texture with mesh detailing.
    Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 22 Oct. 2025
  • In fact, Golden State was feeling so confident that their television network decided to take a playful jab at Lakers superstar LeBron James.
    Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Huff had one quarterback pressure Sunday (being facetious).
    Matt Barrows, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This sounds facetious but is not at all.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
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“Snickery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snickery. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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