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
It's almost as if McCarthy was playing some kind of elaborate practical joke.
From Salon • Feb. 22, 2023
As Günter descends into the rabbit hole of his origins, the film morphs into something else entirely, in what feels almost like a practical joke, too dryly delivered, on van Warmerdam’s part.
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2022
He chuckled quietly at the memory, like a schoolboy who has just played a particularly good practical joke.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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