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antic

noun as in funny act

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Moreover, the increase in favor of conviction might suggest that at least some Republicans, having watched the last month of the former president’s antics as well as the fights over Reps.

Some Republicans also argued that Greene’s antics should be dealt with by the Ethics Committee.

These walkie talkies double as flashlights for nighttime antics or emergency situations.

The show is unexpectedly, wonderfully weird and seemingly designed to appeal to the very people who have written off superhero antics as low-brow entertainment.

From Time

It doesn’t always know what to do with some of its supporting characters, who are too often just literal messengers for Dash and Lily’s antics.

From Vox

Berlusconi repeated the antic in the afternoon in the lower house of Parliament, this time to jeers from fellow politicians.

It was antic, manic, magical, and mischievous—and thoroughly British.

It has been left to Michael Moore, in his usual antic, flawed way, to enact a theatrical liberal insurgency.

The novel has the antic pace and madcap humor of a Hollywood-ready screenplay— Meet the Parents meets Garden State or something.

At British festivals our predecessors used to antic in the guise of a bull, and the bull-headed actor was entitled “The Broad”.

If a discovery in science is announced, he will execute you an antic upon it before it gets fairly cold.

I gritted my teeth at him, danced up and down, screaming an incoherent mockery and making antic faces.

Nor need one necessarily play an absurd antic to be natural.

Her laugh, at some clumsy antic of Leonidas or some word of mine, rang again and again through the solitude of our hiding place.

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On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to antic, such as: joke, shenanigan, trick, caper, dido, and frolic.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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