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Recent Examples of tongue-in-cheek
Sunnei emerged on the international scene with unexpected and inventive show concepts, and the designers share with Franco Moschino a tongue-in-cheek attitude to fashion, peppering their collections with fashion commentary.
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Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
21 June 2026
Williams seemed to be speaking tongue-in-cheek, but Valkyries fans certainly did not see it that way.
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Nathan Canilao,
Mercury News,
20 June 2026
Clad in Nudie suits, Stetson hats, and plenty of tongue-in-cheek cowboy glamor, the trio was repeatedly warned that the tones and aesthetic of Eighties Texas country wasn’t on pace with where the genre was going in the mainstream.
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Marissa R. Moss,
Rolling Stone,
18 June 2026
Asked what’s led to her recent hot streak, Cunningham peeled back the curtain in her typical tongue-in-cheek fashion.
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James Boyd,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
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Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
21 June 2026
Williams seemed to be speaking tongue-in-cheek, but Valkyries fans certainly did not see it that way.
—
Nathan Canilao,
Mercury News,
20 June 2026
Clad in Nudie suits, Stetson hats, and plenty of tongue-in-cheek cowboy glamor, the trio was repeatedly warned that the tones and aesthetic of Eighties Texas country wasn’t on pace with where the genre was going in the mainstream.
—
Marissa R. Moss,
Rolling Stone,
18 June 2026
Asked what’s led to her recent hot streak, Cunningham peeled back the curtain in her typical tongue-in-cheek fashion.
—
James Boyd,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tongue-in-cheek
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Your method of dismissing your flippant remarks, then, is probably the next best option to silence.
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Chick lit was flippant and fizzy and fun, above all, as effervescent and guiltless as a vodka soda.
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His posture is authoritative without being imposing, his voice warm without being facetious.
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Powell was, of course, being facetious, as the low-quality videos featured the actor as a teen running and jumping in the street and lip-syncing to the song while wearing a yacht captain’s hat.
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The funny and ironic thing is that Major League Baseball has also rolled back DEI initiatives in response to the federal government crackdown.
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But the criticism is ironic given DC Studios’ co-chief James Gunn‘s famous pledge of taking a script-first approach to franchise management.
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Co-created by Seinfeld and Larry David, the sitcom was a massive hit in the ’90s thanks to its wry dissection of social norms, and the talents of costars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards.
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Chocolate brings it home with a punch line—a wry observation to end the story with a laugh.
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Traditionally cynical and perceptive commentators—not to mention a lot of tired citizens—found themselves, in some accounts, overcome by an unexpected wave of patriotic sentimentality that washed away, at least for a moment, their gnawing doubts.
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Heston is at his most gleefully cynical as Robert Thorn, a police detective who lives and works in a New York City decimated by environmental deterioration and dwindling resources.
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Combine gin, lime juice, syrup, Aperol and dry Curaçao in a shaker filled with ice.
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Although oil companies still needed to use up a significant portion of their inventories during the supply shock, the demand destruction kept crude stockpiles from running dry.
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Another child was rescued from the rubble in Venezuela’s La Guaira region, marking a poignant moment at the close of a long and emotionally charged day of crisis response on Saturday.
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But Van Sant’s imaginative and deeply poignant retelling of Shakespeare’s Henry IV is a pleasure in its own right, its sweetness and gentle touches of surrealism coming together to form a heartbreaking ode to young love.
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“Tongue-in-cheek.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tongue-in-cheek. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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