Her jape was not appreciated.
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Jape
//d͡ʒeɪp//
Synonyms for "jape" (277 found)
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Verb(65 words)
make a funnymake funmake fun ofmockneedlepanicparthian shotparting shotpersiflageplayplay on wordspleasantrypointpoke fun atpoohpooh poohpooh-poohprankpunput down
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put onput-downput-onquipragrail atrailleryrallyrallyingrank outrazzretortrevileribrib ticklerrideridiculeriotroastrude reproachsallyscintillatescoffscoff atscoutscreamscurrilityshort answersick jokesidesplittersight gagslamslapslap atsneersneer atsparklesportstoryswipetauntteasetwitutter a motverbal thrustvisual jokewaggerywheezewisecrackwitticismwowyakyarn
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Sample sentences
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[H]e clapped hand to thigh, and laughed and laughed until the air rang again. "Oho, a jape—a jape indeed!" he roared.
Source: wiktionary
“Now I come to think of it, I suppose schooling isn't such a bad idea as long as he can have some japes and tomfoolery with his young cohorts.” “My love, it will be very good for him and very good for us.”
Source: wiktionary
In London or New York in the late 1970s dada meant what it meant in Paris and New York at the end of the First World War: a not-quite-naked prank, a jape clothed in the barest g-string of aesthetic authority, a Bronx cheer in three-part harmony, Tzara's affirmation of the right “to piss and shit in different colors.”
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