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tongue-in-cheek
adjective as in ironic and insincere
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Example Sentences
A council is urging whoever is putting up tongue-in-cheek signs in a city to stop the spoofs, saying they could "mislead residents and cause confusion".
Opera Philadelphia’s 50th-season opener, Rossini’s “Il Viaggio a Reims,” performed over the past two weekends at the Academy of Music, was appropriately tongue-in-cheek.
Content under the #RaptureTok ranges from solemn warnings to earnest prep, and plenty of tongue-in-cheek advice.
“I really try to make it feel put together, but always with a bit of irony or something tongue-in-cheek.”
So when the jumbotron section of the show starts on Friday, Martin issues a tongue-in-cheek disclaimer.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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