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Significats de japery en anglès

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Acting like a clown or buffoon.

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Examples for "prank"
Examples for "prank"
1
The prank caller said that his plan could have easily gone wrong.
Radio NZ
2
Each of the boys in turn became the victim of some prank.
The Young Pitcher
3
Whatever had happened wasn't a prank gone wrong that I'd orchestrated myself.
The Lying Game
4
And anyway, is there really any such thing as an innocent prank?
Dangerous Women
5
Real funny. Tony had to admit it was a pretty good prank.
Midnight caller
1
I am happy to relate that it proved a very popular frivolity.
The Irish Times
2
From the depths of tenderness she passed to the shallows of frivolity.
The Black Robe
3
Naughtiness and frivolity are different, and I was always deeply in earnest.
Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One
4
Certain elements at the talks did not participate, being against such frivolity.
The Irish Times
5
The count and I have but little time to give to frivolity.
Castle Craneycrow
1
He plays the part with a clever and economic use of buffoonery.
The Guardian
2
She is full of buffoonery and has a nice appreciation of it.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
3
Nothing pleases the great chambers of sovereign man so much as buffoonery.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
4
A vein of irony-wemight perhaps say of buffoonery-pervadedhis whole nature.
The History of Rome, Book IV / The Revolution
5
Comedy became, therefore, a sort of consecrated slander, lyric spite, aesthetical buffoonery.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 / A Magazi...
1
You think I won't get heckled when I'm up on stage clowning?'
The Pilo Family Circus
2
For all his clowning, Count, you might trust him with your life.
Doom Castle
3
Do you think we will let you ruin everything by your clowning?
Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
4
Once the clowning begins, Thicke says anything is bound to happen.
Ebony
5
All their dances are new and full of their characteristic clowning.
The new yorker
1
It was a famous harlequinade; and, as usual, it concluded the entertainment.
Corporal Sam and Other Stories
2
Prime ministers had succeeded each other like the clowns in a harlequinade.
The Valley of Decision
3
The next, he would repeat his first travesty in all its hideous harlequinade.
The Works of Max Beerbohm
4
A harlequinade's the quickest thing we can do, for two reasons.
The Innocence of Father Brown
5
However little one may mourn the dead, something forbids a harlequinade over their graves.
Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan
Ús de japery en anglès
1
The She-Bear gave her grudging assent, deaf to the japery in his tone.
A Dance with Dragons
2
Yet parting mist, which impressed no one, most especially not the Knife, had a cost far above such japery.
A Cavern of Black Ice
3
Thereafter, one shinned up the ladder, on post-prandial japery intent, another beat the devil's tattoo, a third writhed cachinnatory.
The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02
4
How the Australian barracking of Stuart Broad felt clever and affectionate, the witty japery of an intelligent and respected rival?
The Guardian
5
Despite the japery of Newsround theme tune samples and bagpipes, this good humour is mined more from their ambitious experimentation than anything else.
The Irish Times
Translations for japery
Japery a través del temps