waggery
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“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” has all the digital bells and whistles as well as much of the likable, self-aware waggery of the first.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2017
The New York Times' Manohla Dargis writes that "More is more and is, at times, just right in '22 Jump Street,' an exploding pinata of gags, pratfalls, winking asides, throwaway one-liners and self-reflexive waggery."
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2014
More is more and is, at times, just right in “22 Jump Street,” an exploding piñata of gags, pratfalls, winking asides, throwaway one-liners and self-reflexive waggery.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2014
You won't like it if … Your ideal of musical comedy is prim, Kit and the Widow-style waggery.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2011
The bust bears a much greater resemblance to the Pretender; but whether this was a piece of waggery in the engraver, or only arose from his ignorance in drawing, must be left in doubt.
Perhaps he even grins over Amyas “burying alternately his face in the pasty and the pasty in his face,” or he tries to feel diverted by the Elizabethan waggeries of Frank.
From Essays in Little by Andrew Lang
All kinds of petty insults were heaped upon its pastors; while their place of worship was made the scene of vulgar waggeries and ribald jests.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
The adjutant and riding-master, making holiday, are both present--"to the front," as they call it, enjoying exceedingly the jests and waggeries of their younger comrades.
From M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." by G.J. Whyte-Melville
Many great moralists have suffered from them: the gods are always up to such sardonic waggeries.
From Damn! A Book of Calumny by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
Little did I imagine that the transaction of the three pauls that I by chance overheard that morning was to be the commencement of one of the drollest waggeries that ever came within my experience.
From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II by Alexander Huth
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