(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.
Antiquary
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to antiquity.
(n.) One devoted to the study of ancient times through their relics, as inscriptions, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, coins, manuscripts, etc.; one who searches for and studies the relics of antiquity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Darvill and Wainwright revealed today, at the Society of Antiquaries in London, that the earliest dates from 7,000 BC, and the most recent to medieval times, suggesting the site was already important 4,000 years before the oldest stone circle, and continued to draw visitors for centuries after it was believed to have been abandoned.
(2) 'Mr Stewart is a medieval antiquary interested in the anthropology of Herat'.
(3) The one with the best claim was examined at a meeting at the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1911, when it was said still to have part of a spike embedded in the bone.