waggery
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“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” has all the digital bells and whistles as well as much of the likable, self-aware waggery of the first.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2017
The New York Times' Manohla Dargis writes that "More is more and is, at times, just right in '22 Jump Street,' an exploding pinata of gags, pratfalls, winking asides, throwaway one-liners and self-reflexive waggery."
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2014
More is more and is, at times, just right in “22 Jump Street,” an exploding piñata of gags, pratfalls, winking asides, throwaway one-liners and self-reflexive waggery.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2014
As a nation we love to laugh and take great pleasure in wordplay, waggery and wit.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2010
This last bit of Larry's waggery produced great merriment amongst the by-standers, for the unfortunate tithe proctors were looking at that moment most doleful examples of wretchedness.
From International Short Stories English by Various
See what the critics say of your harmless jokes, neat little trim sentences, and pet waggeries!
From Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray
Our family liked to tell of all sorts of waggeries to which I was enticed by these otherwise grave and solitary men.
From Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by John Oxenford
Bixiou had the whole history of his own times at his finger-ends, more particularly its scandalous chronicle, embellished by added waggeries of his own.
From The Firm of Nucingen by Honoré de Balzac
All kinds of petty insults were heaped upon its pastors; while their place of worship was made the scene of vulgar waggeries and ribald jests.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
They had all sorts of tricks, bywords, waggeries, of which the father could not understand the jest nor the secret.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
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