practical joke
Example Sentences
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Needless to say, the entire episode - which sounds like a youthful practical joke gone wrong, but took place when the candidate was 60 - is odd.
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2024
Was it all some kind of practical joke?
From Slate • Mar. 16, 2023
At Helsinki, she was the ringleader in a practical joke played on Avery Brundage, president of the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2023
It's almost as if McCarthy was playing some kind of elaborate practical joke.
From Salon • Feb. 22, 2023
No doubt his surefire setting cure was a practical joke.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
