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

All a viewer needs for access to his Picasso jape is the ability to read simple English.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2020

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

"Catelyn is truly here? This is not some strange jape of Littlefinger's?"

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin