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
As a nation we love to laugh and take great pleasure in wordplay, waggery and wit.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2010
Thorpe thus becomes what we know Curll to have been a century later, a printer of stolen copy, with a turn for cynical waggery.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes
Behind the scenes he would mock and gibe at himself, had odd remarks to make about his face or his costume, and was alive with waggeries and witticisms.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, August, 1893 by Various
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
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
Without entering into the modern history of parish registers, we may borrow a few of the ancient curiosities to be found therein, the blunders and the waggeries of forgotten priests, and curates, and parish clerks.
From Books and Bookmen by Andrew Lang
See what the critics say of your harmless jokes, neat little trim sentences, and pet waggeries!
From Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray
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