Concept cluster: Negative qualities > Making jokes or being funny
adj
(colloquial, dated) raucously cheerful
n
(colloquial, dated) raucous cheerfulness
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(rare) one who never laughs (especially at jokes); a mirthless person
adj
Wary, careful, shrewd.
adj
(obsolete) That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.
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In a caressive manner.
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in a carousing manner
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In a cartoonish manner; thus, in a comical or exaggerated way
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In a cheeky or impudent manner.
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in a chuckling manner
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In a comedic manner; using comedy.
adj
Pretending shyness or modesty, especially in an insincere or flirtatious way.
adj
Sneaky; surreptitious.
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(obsolete) Inclined to mirth; jolly.
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In a jesting manner; humorously; comically.
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(dated) In a pleasantly humorous or playful fashion.
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In a farcical manner
n
The quality of being flirtatious
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In a flirty manner.
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In a flirting manner.
n
Crafty or wily behavior.
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(now rare) Merry, joyous, full of mirth; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief.
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Archaic spelling of frolicsomely. [In a frolicsome manner.]
n
Archaic spelling of frolicsomeness. [The quality of being frolicsome; playfulness.]
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(obsolete) In a frolicsome manner; with gaiety and mirth.
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(archaic) The quality of being frolic.
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In a frolicsome manner.
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Obsolete form of frolicly. [(obsolete) In a frolicsome manner; with gaiety and mirth.]
adj
that enjoys the pleasures of life
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In a funny or amusing manner.
n
Lightheartedness; playfulness.
n
US spelling of good humour [A pleasant disposition or mood.]
n
A pleasant disposition or mood.
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In a hilarious manner; so as to amuse greatly.
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US spelling of humour [(uncountable) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.]
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US standard spelling of humouredly. [(only in combination with good, bad or ill) In the specified kind of humour. See good-humouredly, bad-humouredly, ill-humouredly.]
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In a humoristic way.
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In a humorous manner; jocularly
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Pleasantly; humorously.
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(in compounds) Having a disposition or mood of a specified kind.
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(only in combination with good, bad or ill) In the specified kind of humour. See good-humouredly, bad-humouredly, ill-humouredly.
adj
(British spelling, Canada) Alternative spelling of humorless [(American spelling) Lacking humor or levity; serious; not funny, amusing, amused, or lighthearted.]
adv
(UK, Canada, uncommon, nonstandard) Alternative spelling of humorously [In a humorous manner; jocularly]
adj
(archaic) Liable to humours or moods; fickle; ill-tempered.
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(now rare) In a humoursome manner; capriciously.
n
someone who laughs excessively.
n
Britain standard spelling of ill humor.
n
Alternative spelling of ill humor [bad temper]
adj
Britain standard spelling of ill-humored.
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In a jestful manner.
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In a jocose manner.
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In a jokeful manner.
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In a joky manner; jokingly, humorously.
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In a joking manner.
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In a joshing manner; teasingly.
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(informal) Used to emphasize a play on words.
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(very rare, chiefly in the context of Japanese culture) In a kawaii manner; cutely.
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In a kidding manner; jestingly, jokingly.
n
Something that should not work, but does.
adv
With laughter or merriment.
adj
(rare) Exhibiting levity.
n
(countable) A lighthearted or frivolous act.
adj
Enjoyably lacking of seriousness, not grave.
n
A state of enjoyable exuberance.
adj
Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight.
adj
(simile, dated) Very merry or cheerful.
n
The emotion usually following humour and accompanied by laughter; merriment; jollity; gaiety.
adj
Full of mirth.
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Characteristic of mirth
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In a playful manner.
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In play; without seriousness; playfully.
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In a playsome or playful manner
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In a pugilistic manner; by means of fighting; aggressively.
adj
(obsolete) Of a person: cunning, crafty.
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In a quipping manner; jokingly, jestingly.
v
(intransitive, archaic) To use verbal tricks or quibbles.
adj
(Scotland, rare) Hard to deal with; dubious; of people: having a character difficult to assess.
adv
So as to rally; teasingly.
adj
Characterized by or engaged in boisterous merry-making.
n
gaiety; mirth; cheer
adj
Mirthful, cheerful, smiling, light-hearted.
adj
(rare) Inclined to and easily brought to laughter; happy.
adj
(informal) astonishing, extreme, unbelievable
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Rollicking; lively, boisterous.
adj
(obsolete) Sardonic.
n
US standard spelling of sense of humour. [The quality of an individual to find certain things funny.]
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In a seriocomic manner.
adj
Resourceful; full of, or ready with, shifts or expedients.
adv
in a side-splitting way, extremely funnily
adj
Affected, smug, and supercilious.
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(slang, figuratively) Friendly in a false, calculating way; underhanded; two-faced; sneaky; slick; smarmy.
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Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
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Tending to make insolent quips.
adj
(archaic) playful, merry
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To wonder; to be astonished at (something).
adj
(obsolete) sly; crafty; cunning
adv
With irony.
adj
(obsolete) boisterous, uproarious
adv
(Internet, humorous, rare) in a trollistic fashion; as if done in a trollistic fashion
adj
(obsolete) Crafty; cunning; sly.
n
That which is vain, futile, or worthless; that which is of no value, use or profit.
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(rare, dated) In a whimsical fashion; whimsically.
v
(informal, intransitive) To make wisecracks; to behave like a smart aleck.
n
(humorous, derogatory) A prosaic phrase, typically including an adverb with the -ly suffix, that attributes dialogue to a character.
adj
Somewhat zany.

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