tongue-in-cheek
Adjective
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Adjective
tongue-in-cheek
- (idiomatic) Not intended seriously; jocular or humorous.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:witty
- He gave a tongue-in-cheek explanation of why the sky was blue, offering a theory about some primordial discount on light blue paint.
- German: augenzwinkernd
- Russian: насме́шливый
tongue-in-cheek (not comparable)
- (obsolete) With contempt.
- With irony.
- He portrayed them tongue-in-cheek as great lawgivers, as Solons.
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