jape

Example Sentences

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McDonald and Jim Youngren came up with the billboard as a jape on the prevailing national image of Seattle in the wake of the Boeing bust.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2021

Yes, there is a jape about polyphasic sleep.

From The Verge • Feb. 26, 2020

Things take on a decidedly goofier turn when Robert Pattinson shows up as the taunting French Dauphin, his Pepé le Pew accent and blond wig only making his performance more of a jape.

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2019

In any case, this gory, frenetic jape is less interested in quibbling over semantics than in signaling its own insouciant self-awareness.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2018

"Catelyn is truly here? This is not some strange jape of Littlefinger's?"

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin