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

Consider the picture well and truly painted of a man who can’t quite reconcile his new clean godly lifestyle with his innate need to jape.

From The Guardian • Apr. 4, 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

Sam, you sweet fat fool, you played me a cruel jape when you made me lord commander.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin