The prank caller said that his plan could have easily gone wrong.
2
Each of the boys in turn became the victim of some prank.
3
Whatever had happened wasn't a prank gone wrong that I'd orchestrated myself.
4
And anyway, is there really any such thing as an innocent prank?
5
Real funny. Tony had to admit it was a pretty good prank.
1
I am happy to relate that it proved a very popular frivolity.
2
From the depths of tenderness she passed to the shallows of frivolity.
3
Naughtiness and frivolity are different, and I was always deeply in earnest.
4
Certain elements at the talks did not participate, being against such frivolity.
5
The count and I have but little time to give to frivolity.
1
He plays the part with a clever and economic use of buffoonery.
2
She is full of buffoonery and has a nice appreciation of it.
3
Nothing pleases the great chambers of sovereign man so much as buffoonery.
4
A vein of irony-wemight perhaps say of buffoonery-pervadedhis whole nature.
5
Comedy became, therefore, a sort of consecrated slander, lyric spite, aesthetical buffoonery.
1
You think I won't get heckled when I'm up on stage clowning?'
2
For all his clowning, Count, you might trust him with your life.
3
Do you think we will let you ruin everything by your clowning?
4
Once the clowning begins, Thicke says anything is bound to happen.
5
All their dances are new and full of their characteristic clowning.
1
The She-Bear gave her grudging assent, deaf to the japery in his tone.
2
Yet parting mist, which impressed no one, most especially not the Knife, had a cost far above such japery.
3
Thereafter, one shinned up the ladder, on post-prandial japery intent, another beat the devil's tattoo, a third writhed cachinnatory.
4
How the Australian barracking of Stuart Broad felt clever and affectionate, the witty japery of an intelligent and respected rival?
5
Despite the japery of Newsround theme tune samples and bagpipes, this good humour is mined more from their ambitious experimentation than anything else.
Ús de harlequinade en anglès
1
It was a famous harlequinade; and, as usual, it concluded the entertainment.
2
Prime ministers had succeeded each other like the clowns in a harlequinade.
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The next, he would repeat his first travesty in all its hideous harlequinade.
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A harlequinade's the quickest thing we can do, for two reasons.
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However little one may mourn the dead, something forbids a harlequinade over their graves.
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It is the sort of thing he could write and ought to write: a religious harlequinade.
7
Young people must be at some harlequinade.'
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The similes are hyperbolic; the names are grotesque; the incidents partake of harlequinade, and the speeches of roaring farce.
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As to the dressing, it's a perfect trick of harlequinade, and she'll own it after a dose of Earlsfont.
10
No unity of plan, no decent propriety of character and costume, could be found in that wild and monstrous harlequinade.
11
Instantly, with the precision of a harlequinade, a stream of giggling girls poured from Eyre Street Hill and Back Hill.
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It's all damned harlequinade.
13
Perhaps justice will emerge from this harlequinade, but if it does, it merely means that this country is, as usual, sort of lucky.
14
The youngster who is engaged at the theatre can set off home at the very latest as soon as the harlequinade is over.
15
In "Mother Goose" there are four opening scenes and fifteen of harlequinade-thepantomime of to-daygenerally reversing this arrangement of figures.
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The clown and pantaloon came on, and presently Sir Harry saw Taffy's shoulders shaking, and set it down to laughter at the harlequinade.