(n.) A buffoon or merry-andrew; one that practices odd gesticulations; the Fool of the old play.
(n.) An odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure.
(n.) A grotesque trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper.
(n.) A grotesque representation.
(n.) An antimask.
(v. t.) To make appear like a buffoon.
(v. i.) To perform antics.
Example Sentences:
(1) The public are growing angrier by the day by the antics of those who inhabit this gold plated, red-upholstered Narnia.
(2) Mourinho, who watched the match from a secret location inside Old Trafford after he accepted a one-match ban for his antics in the fixture between these two clubs three days earlier, said his side’s display had given him a feeling of “real happiness”.
(3) Stand by Trumpenstein, as some are now doing, and you risk seeming to endorse his ideas, statements and ludicrous antics.
(4) To a generation of young Germans, raised under the crushing, introspective guilt of postwar Germany , the sight of such facile antics was simply incomprehensible.
(5) Pardew's antics will generate yet more negative headlines for a club never far from controversy for one reason or another, and the manager admits that the episode may well be a personal watershed.
(6) He even claimed an exam-fixing scandal involving government jobs and places at colleges in the state of Madhya Pradesh in 2013 had been partly inspired by Doraemon and Nobita’s antics.
(7) It’s a headline that we read.” Kokkinakis had earlier told media the team had been trying to avoid distractions such as Tomic’s antics.
(8) In their crass off-pitch antics as well as their humiliating ineptitude, Les Bleus have reminded us of an important truth.
(9) Despite the sometimes self-deprecating shtick – in sharp contrast to Putin's self-mythologising antics – there remains disquiet about what Navalny really represents, behind the caustic put-downs and cool persona.
(10) But his calm, measured approach to politics has been welcomed in Italy after years of Berlusconi's antics.
(11) Arsène Wenger was left with bitter regrets as Arsenal departed the Champions League , with the antics of Arjen Robben, refereeing decisions and a serious hamstring injury to Mesut Özil vying for prominence.
(12) I also don't particularly want to be reminded of my drug-addled, self-obsessed teenage antics.
(13) Decca fell out with most of her family due to her political beliefs; David’s heart was broken by Diana’s marriage and Unity’s antics, and his and Sydney’s marriage was eventually destroyed by the strain of it all.
(14) Fresh from facing down French and German demands for the G20 to clamp down on bank bonuses, the impression left is that the government is trying to have it both ways – surfing a populist wave of disgust at the antics of the banks while simultaneously seeking to reassure the City that nothing much will change.
(15) Billed as an exclusive, the story told how Prince Harry had received a joke phone message from Prince William pretending to be the younger man's then girlfriend, Chelsy Davy, and berating him over his antics in a lap dancing club.
(16) The lads antics were scandalous and no wonder he isn't taking any further action Robbie Savage @RobbieSavage8 If the ballboy gives the ball straight back and does his job properly that doesn't happen!
(17) It's partly that playful style that makes it a good partner for Lady Gaga, an artist famed for antics and experimentation.
(18) Targets included South African call centres, Jacob Zuma’s antics in parliament and the Fifa scandal.
(19) What stood out, in a fascinating set of reports with which the Guardian celebrated the Booker's 40th anniversary, was how often, for all the judicial antics and horse-trading, the panels got it right, delivering ambitious writing to a public that actively expected it.
(20) His latest show of petulance drew boos from a crowd largely sympathetic to his antics up to that point.
Antiquarian
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature.
(n.) An antiquary.
(n.) A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ring was in the collection of the Chute family – which for generations was interested in politics, collecting, and antiquarian research – for centuries before the house came to the National Trust in the 1930s.
(2) When the rain stops, I wander on down the street and find Quagga , an antiquarian bookshop with an impressive collection of Africana.
(3) From the distance and safety of an antiquarian London library, Pakistan's ousted ruler, Pervez Musharraf , officially launched his political comeback today around a personality-driven new party, offering to be the "light in the darkness" for his long-suffering country.
(4) She has two sons, and is married to a dealer in antiquarian sheet music.
(5) The vibration theory, indeed, strongly influenced Hartley's associationist psychology and hence is of more than merely antiquarian interest.
(6) But Cumbernauld town centre’s famed “flexibility” was also its architectural downfall, as it became swamped in generic shopping boxes, obscuring its antiquarian-futurist silhouette.
(7) He should have flourished as a much-loved national figure, dividing his time among royal commissions, football and antiquarian bookshops.
(8) "I wonder what clubs can beat us for antiquarian bygone-dom in celebrating old players through song?"
(9) Concluding observations concern some of the practical problems of acquiring antiquarian books at auction.
(10) It is a deadly place, making up for what it lacks in soul and vitality with ogee curves and pop antiquarianism.
(11) Excepting a coterie of fogeyish misfits, dreamers, forelock-tugging courtiers, DIY specialists, greasy pole-climbers, short-sighted antiquarians and people who would not recognise a titanium lock-nut if one were pushed up their dado, Prince Charles attaches to architects the sort of revulsion properly due to paedophiles.
(12) The antiquarians of the 17th and 18th centuries who linked Stonehenge to the Celtic druids helped to spawn druidic orders that, by the Victorian era, allowed thousands of men to dress up in funny costumes and hold ceremonies.
(13) Tibor Ivanics is a manager at Robert Frew, an antiquarian book and print dealer a few doors down from Racine, which depends mainly on established clients, with a bit of business from tourists and locals.
(14) It performed the principles of its author: It is from Italy that we hurl at the whole world this utterly violent, inflammatory manifesto of ours, with which today we are founding "Futurism", because we wish to free our country from the stinking canker of its professors, archaeologists, tour guides and antiquarians.
(15) The sheer longevity of the survivors might suggest that these are antiquarian places, museums of a dead politics.
(16) To young people of the current generation the very idea of philology suggests something impossibly antiquarian and musty, but philology in fact is the most basic and creative of the interpretive arts.
(17) Our aim was to take the most open approach to it as possible, to find out above all why it is still considered to be such a mythical book.” Interviews with lawyers and historians, antiquarian booksellers and the actors’ own families, accompanied by archaeological-style digs everywhere from back gardens to attics, form the backbone of the play.
(18) At a local school, a visiting antiquarian, the Rev Alfred Richardson, helped him to relish archaeology with Roman remains as "hands-on history".
(19) For Best, dubstep was moving in to claim the space abandoned by rock, through its retreat during the 2000s into either antiquarian retro irrelevance or the non-visceral gentility of indie, all wordsmith craft and over-embellished arrangements.
(20) "T he book is infinitely more than an exercise in precious antiquarianism," wrote Brian Dillon in the Daily Telegraph of The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal , a book which "tells the story of 264 Japanese netsuke – small carvings made of ivory or wood" that "eventually made their way into de Waal's hands .