(n.) Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a witticism; as, to crack good-natured jokes.
(n.) Something not said seriously, or not actually meant; something done in sport.
(v. t.) To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally; to banter; as, to joke a comrade.
(v. i.) To do something for sport, or as a joke; to be merry in words or actions; to jest.
Example Sentences:
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) "The sending off was a joke, and I thought the penalty was even worse," Bruce said.
(3) Fringe 2009 also welcomes back Aussie standup Jim Jeffries , whose jokes include: "Women to me are like public toilets.
(4) Greek officials categorically denied the report with many describing it as a "joke".
(5) Two years later, Trump tweeted that “Obama’s motto” was: “If I don’t go on taxpayer funded vacations & constantly fundraise then the terrorists win.” The joke, it turns out, is on Trump.
(6) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
(7) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
(8) Having long been accustomed to being the butt of other politicians' jokes, however, Farage is relishing what may yet become the last laugh.
(9) Quizzed by one journalist, Gabrielli joked that "the first 12 hours are the most dangerous".
(10) I think the “horror and outrage” Roberts complains of were more like hilarity, and the story still makes me laugh (as do many others on Mumsnet, which is full of jokes as well as acronyms for everything).
(11) Musk revealed his love for Kerbal Space Program in a Q&A in Reddit , joking (or maybe not?)
(12) One of the punters came up to me after and said that I seemed confident, but he’d spent the whole time wondering when I was going to tell a joke.
(13) In a recent episode of the BBC Radio 4 comedy Alun Cochrane's Fun House , Cochrane joked of how he sleeps better in the living room.
(14) I’m just going to prepare myself for next year, for the Olympics and come out even stronger.” Questioned over Bolt’s joking accusation, Gatlin added: “I want my money back.
(15) Intricate is the key word, as screwball dialogue plays off layered wordplay, recurring jokes and referential callbacks to build to the sort of laughs that hit you twice: an initial belly laugh followed, a few minutes later, by the crafty laugh of recognition.
(16) His art knows this and tries to deal with it by way of jokes and excess.
(17) James Cleverly, MP for Braintree, who supported Johnson’s aborted leadership bid before backing May, said joking about him risked undermining the foreign secretary.
(18) It would also be likely to lend scope to ill-conceived prosecutions jeopardising ordinary free speech rights, such as the notorious Twitter Joke Trial .
(19) This, Brown jokes, counts as good weather for Scotland.
(20) December 3, 2013 And fellow presenters took the opportunity for some jokes at his expense.
Travesty
Definition:
(a.) Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition.
(n.) A burlesque translation or imitation of a work.
(v. t.) To translate, imitate, or represent, so as to render ridiculous or ludicrous.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's a good job too, as it would have been a travesty if that goal had been disallowed.
(2) How much poorer would British theatre be without productions of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead , the Real Inspector Hound or Travesties .
(3) It would be a travesty if their first experience of democracy was this shambles.
(4) The BBC is facing a growing political backlash to its proposed cuts to local radio after MPs lined up at a Westminster debate to criticise the changes as unfair, unjustified and a "travesty" for listeners.
(5) It would be a travesty for Australian democracy if these careful and thought-through reforms were not in place in time for the next federal election,” said the shadow resources minister, Gary Gray.
(6) Like his party, Griffin likes to project an image of besuited normality, speaking for the common citizen against the liberal establishment, and the BBC appears to have bought this travesty.
(7) Amnesty International called the verdict a "travesty".
(8) It would be a travesty if Chile were to concede a late equaliser here, such has been their almost total domination.
(9) Klimt is so often undervalued, just because of this travestied masterpiece.
(10) And if Walcott somehow ends up with England in France this summer it’ll be an utter travesty.
(11) In an interview with Deadline, the film-maker angrily vowed to put the film on hold in the hope that such drastic measures might prevent similar travesties in future.
(12) It was a game that got away from us and we could have lost it in the end, which would have been a travesty.” While Villa did not play like a side in trouble, points are ultimately what matter and Lambert still has to convince all of his side’s supporters that he is the man to lead the club into calmer waters.
(13) The payments scheme, which NHS England has introduced to increase woefully low levels of dementia diagnosis, has been condemned as “odious” and “an intellectual and ethical travesty”.
(14) "With Costa Rica's rich biodiversity, it would be a travesty for them not to stand up for sharks, which sit at the highest levels of the food chain assuring balance among ecological communities in the ocean," Sea Shepherd said.
(15) The award-winning children's writer Alan Gibbons read a statement from the playwright Hall , in which Hall urged the council to change its mind, saying that "a Labour administration which would even consider closing all local libraries travesties the history of the Party and the Labour movement".
(16) He said "of course [Jones] meant hide the decline in temperatures, which caused another scientist, Kevin Trenberth of the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, to write: " The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't ."
(17) If Cameron and his ministers try the same trick with the commemoration of the 1914-18 carnage, it will be a repulsive travesty.
(18) That Ray Tensing is currently free and walking around in public is a travesty,” the statement said.
(19) "The impact these cuts will have on all of its programming is a travesty," she told the debate in parliament's Westminster Hall.
(20) "A standing tribute to one of the biggest travesties of the 20th century on Saturday followed by VIP guided bar crawl with English speaking guides."