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

How much of it are we meant to read as thinly veiled auto-critique versus a wickedly funny jape?

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2018

The memory of the fool's jape made Tyrion smile.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin