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schtick
adjective as in comic/comical
Weak matches
- absurd
- batty
- boffo
- camp
- crazy
- dippy
- diverting
- dizzy
- droll
- entertaining
- facetious
- farcical
- flaky
- fool
- foolheaded
- for grins
- freaky
- funny
- gelastic
- goofus
- goofy
- gump
- horse's tail
- humorous
- ironic
- jerky
- jocular
- joking
- joshing
- laughable
- light
- loony
- ludicrous
- Mickey Mouse
- nutty
- off the wall
- priceless
- ridiculous
- risible
- screwy
- side-splitting
- silly
- wacky
- waggish
- whimsical
- witty
noun as in act
noun as in avocation
Strongest match
Weak match
noun as in comedy
Strong matches
noun as in groove
noun as in hobby
Strong matches
noun as in peculiarity
noun as in pretense
Strong matches
- act
- acting
- affectation
- appearance
- artifice
- claim
- deceit
- deception
- display
- dissimulation
- double-dealing
- evasion
- excuse
- fabrication
- facade
- fakery
- falsification
- feigning
- gag
- guise
- insincerity
- invention
- make believe
- mask
- masquerade
- misrepresentation
- misstatement
- ostentation
- posing
- posturing
- pretentiousness
- routine
- ruse
- sham
- shuffling
- simulation
- stall
- stunt
- subterfuge
- trickery
- veil
- wile
noun as in repertory
Strongest matches
noun as in routine
Example Sentences
The practice of including recent art in historical exhibitions, an increasingly common art museum schtick, means to make supposedly arcane subjects relevant and timely by suggesting that living artists still engage those themes.
It's not a gimmick or a schtick, this is a fully-fledged game of football, at Cliftonhill on Saturday at three o'clock, with all the bells and whistles and with three points on the line.
Those are just the highlights of some of the introductory speeches before Trump came on and did his usual schtick which had people leaving the venue in droves.
But he refuses to go away, even though his schtick is growing ever more tiresome.
Whether that's enough to overcome Trump's inexplicable hold on the Republican Party after eight years of his now very tired old schtick is unknown.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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