Tongue-in-cheek

I use the word in a tongue-in-cheek fashion.

It's meant to be tongue-in-cheek.

"I was being tongue-in-cheek when I said that." "Well, I thought you were serious."

He gave a tongue-in-cheek explanation of why the sky was blue, offering a theory about some primordial discount on light blue paint.

It was in this era, too, that author and Scotland the Brave songwriter Cliff Hanley penned The Glasgow Underground, a tongue-in-cheek love letter to the Subway in song.

The tongue-in-cheek sendup wasn’t far from Silicon Valley’s reality.

He portrayed them tongue-in-cheek as great lawgivers, as Solons.