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Synonyms for joke

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for joke

words or actions intended to excite laughter or amusement

something or someone uproariously funny or absurd

an object of amusement or laughter

to make jokes; behave playfully

to tease or mock good-humoredly

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Synonyms for joke

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According to Denis, his father jokily adopted this for his family.
A low-key comedy high on charm and credible twentysomething observation, Jesse Rosen's debut feature, "The Art of Being Straight," stars the writer-director as a possibly-coming-out newbie in Los Angeles whose puzzling over his sexual identification isn't helped by his jokily insensitive straight buds.
The first four minutes aren't bad though as Ewan McGregor puts in a cameo as secret agent Ian Rider, seeing off pursuing motorbikes and avoiding missiles in a jokily sleepy Cornwall before being (apparently) killed by some bloke (Damien Lewis) hanging upside down from a helicopter.
So at their anniversary party this weekend, they have jokily told their guests that unless they are coming with a pair of Rolex watches, they can make a donation to charity instead.
But be sure you do it jokily or you could have a mutiny on your hands!
"El perro esta muy cansado ..." the man said jokily. "The dog is exhausted." The television acquired new channels--Spanish news, dubbed movies, bizarre variety shows.
Sterne draws whimsically here on Locke and Malebranche by way of Addison's Spectator, and it is the pervasiveness of the late-seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century anxieties jokily rendered in Walter's speech that is the subject of Stuart Sherman's fine book.
The bikini-clad actress was seen smiling as she jokily cuddled up to a mystery man - thought to be a resort worker - while sipping a drink by the pool and dancing on the beach.
Her film producer Stephen Belafonte jokily pointed where it was slashed to the hip...
He picked up the player's passport from the control desk and shot a quick clip of him jokily asking Snapchat followers whether he should burn the document, so that the star would have to stay in the country, or put it back.
Cilla, meanwhile, who pointed out that she hadn't lived in Liverpool for 50 years, seemed to be in a particularly playful mood, jokily telling her fellow guest: "You are dead common and you are dead Liverpool.
DAVID Cameron jokily called Nick Clegg an "idle f***r" - after hearing his deputy was out with his wife while he was busy working.
Bizarrely, I jokily suggested that maybe we should enter X Factor 2014 as a duo.