practical joke
Example Sentences
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"It's more likely a practical joke or someone attempting to create a smear campaign," he explained.
From BBC ● May 1, 2024
The con job was, he thinks, “no more than a practical joke, really. Good clean sport.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
Was it all some kind of practical joke?
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2023
It's almost as if McCarthy was playing some kind of elaborate practical joke.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2023
Put their tails down and slunk right out from under the best practical joke ever thought up by man or boy in Cold Sassy, Georgia.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
