Thesaurus / humor
FEEDBACKHow to use humor in a sentence
This whole school from home thing is hard, I need some humor.
BACK TO SCHOOL LOOKS VERY DIFFERENT THIS YEARCHRISTI OLSONAUGUST 26, 2020SEARCH ENGINE LANDAs a child, I’d often join her at the polls and observe how she and her rival ward leader from the opposing party would joust politically, with good humor and care for each other and the community personally.
DEPARTURE FROM CONVENTION—MOM, BASEBALL, THE POSTAL WORKER, AND PATRIOTISMJAKEMETHAUGUST 19, 2020FORTUNEThere’s a lot of art and music, and a lot of humor subgenres that are kind of similar to Alt TikTok.
A GUIDE TO THE TIKTOKISH APPS THAT WANT TO BE THE NEXT TIKTOKABBY OHLHEISERAUGUST 6, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWThe Texas native with a wry sense of humor says she’s partial to mixing science and music.
DATA VISUALIZATIONS TURN NUMBERS INTO A STORYNANCY SHUTEAUGUST 3, 2020SCIENCE NEWSA humor laden 140 characters or less tweet can lead to massive exposure on Twitter, an achievement that would take other forms of advertising, very large budgets to achieve.
HOW TO PLAN YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGY FOR ANY BUSINESSSUMEET ANANDJUNE 24, 2020SEARCH ENGINE WATCHSo they decided to use the easy-to-digest cartoon format and light humor to boost scientific literacy.
REAL-LIFE SCIENTISTS INSPIRE THESE COMIC BOOK SUPERHEROESKYLE PLANTZJUNE 14, 2020SCIENCE NEWSI was a little riled at first myself, but the second and last lady who came out put me in excellent humor.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYThe gray eyes, once flashing with the light of kindly humor, now softened with sympathy, now glowed with pity.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYDHe was judge of the admiralty court of Pennsylvania; his writings abound with wit, humor and satire.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELLWhen Tim hesitates he loses his temper as a sensible man should lose it—he buries it, and his indomitable good humor wins.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYDWORDS RELATED TO HUMOR
- adulate
- blandish
- bootlick
- brown-nose
- build up
- butter up
- cajole
- cater to
- charm
- con
- court
- fawn
- get next to
- glorify
- grovel
- humor
- inveigle
- jolly
- lay it on thick
- oil
- overpraise
- play up to
- praise
- rub the right way
- salve
- sell
- snow
- soft-soap
- soften
- spread it on
- stroke
- suck up to
- sweet-talk
- sweeten up
- toady
- wheedle
- work on
- work over
- apple-polish
- beg
- beg for mercy
- beseech
- blandish
- bootlick
- bow and scrape
- brown-nose
- butter up
- cater to
- court
- cower
- crawl
- creep
- cringe
- crouch
- eat crow
- eat dirt
- eat humble pie
- fall all over
- fawn
- flatter
- humble oneself
- humor
- implore
- kiss one's feet
- kneel
- kowtow
- make much of
- make up to
- pamper
- play up to
- prostrate
- revere
- snivel
- soft-soap
- stoop
- suck up to
- truckle
- wheedle
- air
- character
- complexion
- difference
- discreteness
- disposition
- dissimilarity
- distinction
- distinctiveness
- eccentricity
- habit
- humor
- identity
- idiosyncrasy
- independence
- individualism
- ipseity
- makeup
- manner
- nature
- oddity
- oneness
- originality
- particularity
- peculiarity
- rarity
- seity
- selfdom
- selfhood
- selfness
- separateness
- singleness
- singularity
- singularness
- temper
- temperament
- uniqueness
- unity
- unlikeness
- way
- allowing
- babying
- catering
- coddling
- cosseting
- delighting
- entertaining
- favoring
- fostering
- giving in
- giving rein to
- going along
- going easy on
- gratifying
- humoring
- mollycoddling
- nourishing
- obliging
- pampering
- pandering
- petting
- pleasing
- regaling
- satiating
- satisfying
- spoil rottening
- spoiling
- taking care of
- tickling
- yielding
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