Exact Match:
- fooling
- characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility; "a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter"
Synonyms:
- badinage,
- bamboozlement,
- banter,
- bantering,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- booing,
- buffoonery,
- calculated deception,
- catcalling,
- chaff,
- chaffing,
- circumvention,
- clownishness,
- conning,
- coquetry,
- dabbling,
- dalliance,
- dallying,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- derision,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- dupery,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- exchange,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fiddling,
- fleering,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- flippancy,
- flippant,
- flirtation,
- fond illusion,
- foolery,
- fooling around,
- give-and-take,
- good-natured banter,
- grinning,
- hallucination,
- harlequinade,
- harmless teasing,
- hazing,
- high jinks,
- hissing,
- hoodwinking,
- hooting,
- horseplay,
- idling,
- illusion,
- jape,
- jeering,
- jerking off,
- jest,
- jesting,
- jive,
- joke,
- joking,
- jollying,
- josh,
- joshing,
- kidding,
- kidding around,
- leering,
- levity,
- loitering,
- messing around,
- mirage,
- mockery,
- mocking,
- monkeying,
- monkeying around,
- monkeyshines,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- panning,
- persiflage,
- phantasm,
- piddling,
- playing,
- playing around,
- pleasantry,
- pottering,
- puttering,
- putting on,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- ribbing,
- ridicule,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- roughhouse,
- rowdiness,
- scoffing,
- self-deception,
- shenanigans,
- skylarking,
- smart,
- smart-aleckiness,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smartness,
- smattering,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- sport,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- tinkering,
- tomfoolery,
- toying,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trifling,
- twit,
- twitting,
- victimization,
- vision,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking
Related Words:
- badinage
collapse - frivolous banter related words >
- amorous looks,
- come-hither look,
- coquettish glances,
- coquettishness,
- coyness,
- dabbling,
- dalliance,
- dallying,
- fiddling,
- flirtation,
- flirtatiousness,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- goo-goo eyes,
- idling,
- jerking off,
- kidding around,
- loitering,
- messing around,
- monkeying,
- monkeying around,
- ogle,
- piddling,
- playing,
- playing around,
- pottering,
- puttering,
- smattering,
- tinkering,
- toying,
- trifling
- badinage,
- banter,
- booing,
- catcalling,
- chaff,
- chaffing,
- derision,
- exchange,
- fleering,
- flippancy,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- frivolity,
- give-and-take,
- good-natured banter,
- grinning,
- harmless teasing,
- hissing,
- hooting,
- invective,
- jape,
- jeering,
- jest,
- jesting,
- jive,
- joke,
- joking,
- josh,
- joshing,
- kidding,
- kidding around,
- leering,
- levity,
- mockery,
- panning,
- persiflage,
- pleasantry,
- ragging,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- repartee,
- ridicule,
- roasting,
- scoffing,
- smart-aleckiness,
- smartness,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- sport,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- twit,
- twitting,
- vituperation
- Micawberish,
- backward,
- coquetry,
- dabbling,
- dalliance,
- dallying,
- dawdling,
- delaying,
- dilatoriness,
- dilatory,
- dillydallying,
- dolce far niente,
- dragging,
- easygoing,
- fiddling,
- flirtation,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- foot-dragging,
- goofing off,
- idling,
- jerking off,
- kidding around,
- lackadaisical,
- lag,
- laggard,
- lagging,
- lax,
- lazing,
- lazy,
- lingering,
- loafing,
- lolling,
- lollygagging,
- lounging,
- messing around,
- monkeying,
- monkeying around,
- mopery,
- piddling,
- playing,
- playing around,
- pottering,
- procrastinating,
- procrastination,
- procrastinative,
- procrastinatory,
- puttering,
- remiss,
- shilly-shallying,
- shuffling,
- slack,
- slow,
- sluggish,
- smattering,
- tarrying,
- tinkering,
- toying,
- trifling
- Micawberish,
- backward,
- coquetry,
- dabbling,
- dalliance,
- dawdling,
- delaying,
- dilatoriness,
- dilatory,
- dillydallying,
- dolce far niente,
- dragging,
- easygoing,
- fiddling,
- flirtation,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- foot-dragging,
- goofing off,
- idling,
- jerking off,
- kidding around,
- lackadaisical,
- lag,
- laggard,
- lagging,
- lax,
- lazing,
- lazy,
- lingering,
- loafing,
- loitering,
- lolling,
- lollygagging,
- lounging,
- messing around,
- monkeying,
- monkeying around,
- mopery,
- piddling,
- playing,
- playing around,
- pottering,
- procrastinating,
- procrastination,
- procrastinative,
- procrastinatory,
- puttering,
- remiss,
- shilly-shallying,
- shuffling,
- slack,
- slow,
- sluggish,
- smattering,
- tarriance,
- tarrying,
- tinkering,
- toying,
- trifling,
- waiting
- dalliance
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- the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working related words >
- amorous dalliance,
- amorous looks,
- billing and cooing,
- bundling,
- caressing,
- come-hither look,
- coquetry,
- coquettish glances,
- coquettishness,
- coyness,
- cuddling,
- dabbling,
- dallying,
- dawdling,
- dilatoriness,
- dillydallying,
- fiddling,
- flirtation,
- flirtatiousness,
- fondling,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- goo-goo eyes,
- hugging,
- idling,
- jerking off,
- kidding around,
- kissing,
- lag,
- lagging,
- lingering,
- loitering,
- lollygagging,
- lovemaking,
- messing around,
- monkeying,
- monkeying around,
- necking,
- nestling,
- nuzzling,
- ogle,
- petting,
- piddling,
- playing,
- playing around,
- pottering,
- procrastination,
- puttering,
- sexual intercourse,
- shilly-shallying,
- smattering,
- snuggling,
- spooning,
- tarriance,
- tarrying,
- tinkering,
- toying,
- trifling,
- waiting
- persiflage
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- light teasing related words >
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- backchat,
- badinage,
- banter,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- chaff,
- conceit,
- crack,
- cross,
- epigram,
- exchange,
- facetiae,
- flash of wit,
- flight of wit,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- gibe,
- give-and-take,
- good-natured banter,
- happy thought,
- harmless teasing,
- jape,
- jest,
- jive,
- joke,
- josh,
- kidding,
- kidding around,
- mot,
- nasty crack,
- play of wit,
- pleasantry,
- quip,
- quips and cranks,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- repartee,
- retort,
- ridicule,
- riposte,
- sally,
- scintillation,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- snappy comeback,
- sport,
- stroke of wit,
- turn of thought,
- twit,
- wisecrack,
- witticism
- smattering
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- a slight or superficial understanding of a subject related words >
- a little learning,
- amateurism,
- cast,
- coquetry,
- dabbling,
- dalliance,
- dallying,
- dash,
- dilettantism,
- dilettantship,
- few,
- fiddling,
- flirtation,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- gleam,
- glimmering,
- glimpse,
- half-learning,
- handful,
- hint,
- idea,
- idling,
- imperfect knowledge,
- intimation,
- jerking off,
- kidding around,
- lick,
- loitering,
- look,
- messing around,
- monkeying,
- monkeying around,
- piddling,
- playing,
- playing around,
- pottering,
- puttering,
- scattering,
- scintilla,
- sciolism,
- semi-learning,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shallowness,
- sip,
- slight knowledge,
- smack,
- smatter,
- smattering of ignorance,
- smattering of knowledge,
- smell,
- soupcon,
- spark,
- spatter,
- spattering,
- sprinkling,
- suggestion,
- sup,
- superficiality,
- surface-scratching,
- suspicion,
- taste,
- thought,
- tincture,
- tinge,
- tinkering,
- touch,
- toying,
- trace,
- trifling,
- vague notion
- jive
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- dance to jive music; dance the jive related words >
- acid rock,
- avant-garde jazz,
- badinage,
- ballroom music,
- banter,
- bebop,
- boogie-woogie,
- bop,
- chaff,
- country rock,
- dance music,
- dances,
- exchange,
- folk rock,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- fun,
- give-and-take,
- good-natured banter,
- hard rock,
- harmless teasing,
- haze,
- hot jazz,
- jape,
- jazz,
- jest,
- joke,
- jolly,
- josh,
- kid,
- kidding,
- kidding around,
- mainstream jazz,
- musical suite,
- needle,
- persiflage,
- play jazz,
- pleasantry,
- put on,
- rag,
- ragtime,
- raillery,
- rally,
- rallying,
- razz,
- rhythm-and-blues,
- rib,
- ride,
- ridicule,
- roast,
- rock,
- rock-and-roll,
- sport,
- suite,
- suite of dances,
- swing,
- syncopate,
- syncopated music,
- syncopation,
- tease,
- the new music,
- twit
- playing
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- the action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation
- the act of playing a musical instrument related words >
- acting,
- aflicker,
- aping,
- betting,
- bickering,
- blinking,
- buffoonery,
- business,
- cardsharping,
- casting lots,
- characterization,
- coquetry,
- dabbling,
- dalliance,
- dallying,
- dancing,
- dumb show,
- embodiment,
- enacting,
- enactment,
- fiddling,
- flashing,
- flickering,
- flickery,
- flicky,
- flirtation,
- fluttering,
- fluttery,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- gag,
- gambling,
- gaming,
- ham,
- hammy acting,
- hazarding,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- idling,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- incarnation,
- jerking off,
- kidding around,
- lambent,
- loitering,
- masquerade,
- messing around,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- monkeying,
- monkeying around,
- mummery,
- overacting,
- pantomime,
- pantomiming,
- patter,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- personification,
- piddling,
- play,
- playacting,
- playing around,
- portrayal,
- posing,
- pottering,
- projection,
- puttering,
- quivering,
- quivery,
- representation,
- risking,
- slapstick,
- smattering,
- sortition,
- speculation,
- sporting,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- staking,
- stroboscopic,
- stunt,
- taking a role,
- tinkering,
- toying,
- trifling,
- wagering,
- wavering,
- wavery
- adulterous affair,
- adultery,
- affair,
- agacerie,
- allure,
- allurement,
- amorous looks,
- amour,
- appeal,
- attraction,
- attractiveness,
- beguilement,
- beguiling,
- bewitchery,
- bewitchment,
- blandishment,
- cajolery,
- captivation,
- charisma,
- charm,
- charmingness,
- come-hither,
- come-hither look,
- coquetry,
- coquettish glances,
- coquettishness,
- coyness,
- cuckoldry,
- dabbling,
- dalliance,
- dallying,
- enchantment,
- entanglement,
- enthrallment,
- enticement,
- entrapment,
- eternal triangle,
- fascination,
- fiddling,
- flirtatiousness,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- forbidden fruit,
- forbidden love,
- glamour,
- goo-goo eyes,
- hanky-panky,
- idling,
- illicit love,
- inducement,
- infidelity,
- interest,
- intrigue,
- inveiglement,
- invitation,
- jerking off,
- kidding around,
- liaison,
- loitering,
- love affair,
- magnetism,
- messing around,
- monkeying,
- monkeying around,
- ogle,
- piddling,
- playing,
- playing around,
- pottering,
- puttering,
- romance,
- romantic tie,
- seducement,
- seduction,
- seductiveness,
- sex appeal,
- smattering,
- snaring,
- tantalization,
- temptation,
- tinkering,
- toying,
- triangle,
- trifling,
- unfaithfulness,
- winning ways,
- winsomeness,
- witchery,
- wooing
- badinage,
- bamboozlement,
- banter,
- bantering,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- booing,
- calculated deception,
- catcalling,
- chaff,
- chaffing,
- circumvention,
- conning,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- dupery,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- exchange,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fleering,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- flippant,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- give-and-take,
- good-natured banter,
- grinning,
- hallucination,
- harmless teasing,
- hazing,
- hissing,
- hoodwinking,
- hooting,
- illusion,
- jape,
- jeering,
- jest,
- jesting,
- jive,
- joke,
- joking,
- jollying,
- josh,
- joshing,
- kidding around,
- leering,
- mirage,
- mocking,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- panning,
- persiflage,
- phantasm,
- pleasantry,
- putting on,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- ribbing,
- ridicule,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- scoffing,
- self-deception,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- sport,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- twit,
- twitting,
- victimization,
- vision,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking
- horseplay
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- rowdy or boisterous play related words >
- badness,
- banter,
- buffoonery,
- clownishness,
- discourtesy,
- disorder,
- disorderliness,
- disorderly conduct,
- disruption,
- disruptiveness,
- foolery,
- fooling,
- frowned-upon behavior,
- harlequinade,
- hooliganism,
- impropriety,
- misbehavior,
- misconduct,
- misdemeanor,
- misdoing,
- monkeyshines,
- naughtiness,
- nonsanctioned behavior,
- roughhouse,
- rowdiness,
- rowdyism,
- ruffianism,
- shenanigans,
- tomfoolery,
- vandalism,
- venial sin,
- vice,
- wrongdoing
- Mardi Gras,
- Saturnalia,
- banquet,
- blowout,
- carnival,
- do,
- fair,
- feast,
- festival,
- festive occasion,
- festivity,
- fete,
- field day,
- fiesta,
- fooling,
- gala,
- gala affair,
- gala day,
- great doings,
- jamboree,
- kermis,
- party,
- picnic,
- revel,
- revelment,
- roughhouse,
- rowdiness,
- skylarking,
- up,
- wassail,
- waygoose,
- wayzgoose,
- whoop,
- whoopee
- bantering
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- cleverly amusing in tone; "a bantering tone"; "facetious remarks"; "tongue-in-cheek advice" related words >
- booing,
- catcalling,
- chaffing,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- fleering,
- flippant,
- fooling,
- grinning,
- hazing,
- hissing,
- hooting,
- jeering,
- jesting,
- joking,
- jollying,
- joshing,
- kidding,
- leering,
- mocking,
- panning,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- ribbing,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- scoffing,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- twitting
- jesting
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- characterized by jokes and good humor related words >
- Attic,
- bantering,
- biting,
- brilliant,
- chaffing,
- clever,
- droll,
- facetious,
- fooling,
- funny,
- hazing,
- humorous,
- humorsome,
- jocose,
- jocular,
- joking,
- joky,
- jollying,
- joshing,
- keen,
- keen-witted,
- kidding,
- mordant,
- nimble-witted,
- pointed,
- pungent,
- quick-witted,
- ragging,
- rapier-like,
- razzing,
- ribbing,
- roasting,
- salt,
- salty,
- scintillating,
- sharp,
- smart,
- sparkling,
- sprightly,
- teasing,
- twitting,
- whimsical,
- witty
- banter,
- bantering,
- booing,
- catcalling,
- chaffing,
- derision,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- fleering,
- flippancy,
- flippant,
- fooling,
- grinning,
- hissing,
- hooting,
- jeering,
- joshing,
- kidding,
- leering,
- levity,
- mockery,
- mocking,
- panning,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- ridicule,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- scoffing,
- smart,
- smart-aleckiness,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smartness,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- teasing,
- twitting
- leering
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- showing sly or knowing malice in a glance; "she had run in fear of...his evil leering eye"- Amy Lowell
- (of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious; "leering drugstore cowboys" related words >
- banter,
- bantering,
- booing,
- catcalling,
- chaffing,
- derision,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- fleering,
- flippancy,
- flippant,
- fooling,
- grinning,
- hissing,
- hooting,
- jeering,
- joshing,
- kidding,
- levity,
- mockery,
- mocking,
- panning,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- ridicule,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- scoffing,
- smart,
- smart-aleckiness,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smartness,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- twitting
- banter,
- bantering,
- booing,
- catcalling,
- chaffing,
- derision,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- fleering,
- flippancy,
- flippant,
- fooling,
- grinning,
- hissing,
- hooting,
- jeering,
- joshing,
- kidding,
- leering,
- levity,
- mockery,
- mocking,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- ridicule,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- scoffing,
- smart,
- smart-aleckiness,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smartness,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- twitting
- railing
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- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- material for making rails or rails collectively related words >
- balustrade,
- banister,
- bantering,
- barrier,
- booing,
- boundary,
- catcalling,
- chaffing,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- fence,
- fleering,
- flippant,
- fooling,
- grinning,
- hissing,
- hooting,
- jeering,
- joshing,
- kidding,
- leering,
- mocking,
- panning,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- rail,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- scoffing,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- stone wall,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- twitting,
- wall
- Mickey Mouse,
- airy,
- asinine,
- banal,
- bickering,
- brimful,
- brimming,
- captious,
- catchpenny,
- caviling,
- chic,
- chipper,
- chitchat,
- chitter-chatter,
- choplogic,
- classy,
- commonplace,
- coquetry,
- crammed,
- crowded,
- cursory,
- dabbling,
- dalliance,
- dallying,
- dashing,
- dawdling,
- depthless,
- dillydallying,
- dolce far niente,
- empty,
- equivocatory,
- evasive,
- fashionable,
- fatuous,
- few,
- fiddling,
- flimsy,
- flirtation,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- foolish,
- footling,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- futile,
- goofing off,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- hollow,
- idle,
- idling,
- inane,
- incidental,
- inconsequential,
- inconsiderable,
- insignificant,
- insipid,
- jammed,
- jejune,
- jerking off,
- kidding around,
- lazing,
- light,
- lingering,
- little,
- loaded,
- loafing,
- logic-chopping,
- loitering,
- lolling,
- lounging,
- low,
- meager,
- measly,
- messing around,
- miniature,
- minor,
- modish,
- monkeying,
- monkeying around,
- mopery,
- neat,
- negligible,
- niggling,
- nit-picking,
- no great shakes,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- orderly,
- otiose,
- packed,
- paltering,
- paltry,
- petty,
- picayune,
- picayunish,
- piddling,
- playing,
- playing around,
- pottering,
- puny,
- pussyfooting,
- puttering,
- quibbling,
- shallow,
- sharp,
- shipshape,
- short,
- shuffling,
- silly,
- skin-deep,
- slender,
- slight,
- small,
- smart,
- smattering,
- snappy,
- snug,
- spick-and-span,
- superficial,
- swank,
- tarrying,
- tidy,
- tinkering,
- tiny,
- toying,
- trichoschistic,
- trig,
- trim,
- trite,
- trivial,
- uncluttered,
- unimportant,
- vacuous,
- vain,
- valueless,
- vapid,
- well-groomed,
- windy,
- worthless
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- calculated deception,
- circumvention,
- conning,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- dupery,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- hallucination,
- hoodwinking,
- illusion,
- kidding,
- mirage,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- phantasm,
- putting on,
- self-deception,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- victimization,
- vision,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking
- banter,
- bantering,
- booing,
- catcalling,
- chaffing,
- derision,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- fleering,
- flippancy,
- flippant,
- fooling,
- grinning,
- hazing,
- hissing,
- hooting,
- jeering,
- jesting,
- joking,
- jollying,
- joshing,
- kidding,
- leering,
- levity,
- mockery,
- mocking,
- panning,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- ribbing,
- ridicule,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- scoffing,
- smart,
- smart-aleckiness,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smartness,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- taunting,
- teasing
- banter,
- bantering,
- booing,
- catcalling,
- chaffing,
- derision,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- fleering,
- flippancy,
- flippant,
- fooling,
- grinning,
- hazing,
- hissing,
- hooting,
- jeering,
- jesting,
- joking,
- jollying,
- joshing,
- kidding,
- leering,
- levity,
- mockery,
- mocking,
- panning,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- ribbing,
- ridicule,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- scoffing,
- smart,
- smart-aleckiness,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smartness,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- twitting
- pleasantry
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- an agreeable or amusing remark; "they exchange pleasantries" related words >
- Atticism,
- affability,
- agile wit,
- agreeability,
- agreeableness,
- amenity,
- amiability,
- amicability,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- badinage,
- banter,
- black humor,
- bliss,
- blissfulness,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliance,
- brilliant idea,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- chaff,
- cleverness,
- comedy,
- compatibility,
- complaisance,
- conceit,
- congeniality,
- cordiality,
- crack,
- dry wit,
- enjoyableness,
- epigram,
- esprit,
- exchange,
- facetiae,
- facetiousness,
- farce,
- felicitousness,
- flash of wit,
- flight of wit,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- funniness,
- geniality,
- gibe,
- give-and-take,
- good-natured banter,
- goodliness,
- goodness,
- graciousness,
- happy thought,
- harmless teasing,
- harmoniousness,
- humor,
- humorousness,
- irony,
- jape,
- jest,
- jive,
- jocoseness,
- jocularity,
- joke,
- joking,
- josh,
- joshing,
- keen-wittedness,
- keenness,
- kidding,
- kidding around,
- lampoon,
- mellifluousness,
- mellowness,
- mot,
- nasty crack,
- niceness,
- nimble wit,
- nimble-wittedness,
- parody,
- persiflage,
- play of wit,
- pleasance,
- pleasantness,
- pleasingness,
- pleasurability,
- pleasurableness,
- pleasure,
- pleasurefulness,
- pretty wit,
- pungency,
- quick wit,
- quick-wittedness,
- quip,
- quips and cranks,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- rapport,
- ready wit,
- repartee,
- retort,
- ridicule,
- riposte,
- sally,
- salt,
- saltiness,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- savor of wit,
- scintillation,
- sharpness,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- smartness,
- snappy comeback,
- sport,
- squib,
- stroke of wit,
- subtle wit,
- sweetness,
- travesty,
- turn of thought,
- twit,
- visual humor,
- welcomeness,
- wisecrack,
- wit,
- witticism,
- wittiness
- mocking
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- playfully vexing (especially by ridicule); "his face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air"- Lawrence Durrell related words >
- adoption,
- appropriation,
- assumption,
- bantering,
- booing,
- borrowed plumes,
- catcalling,
- chaffing,
- copying,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- derivation,
- deriving,
- fleering,
- flippant,
- fooling,
- grinning,
- hissing,
- hooting,
- imitation,
- infringement,
- jeering,
- joshing,
- kidding,
- leering,
- panning,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- pirating,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- scoffing,
- simulation,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- taking,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- twitting
- arrogant,
- bantering,
- booing,
- catcalling,
- chaffing,
- clannish,
- cliquish,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- disdainful,
- exclusive,
- fleering,
- flippant,
- fooling,
- grinning,
- haughty,
- hissing,
- hooting,
- jeering,
- joshing,
- kidding,
- leering,
- mocking,
- panning,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- scoffing,
- scornful,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smirking,
- snickering,
- sniffy,
- sniggering,
- snobbish,
- snobby,
- snooty,
- snorting,
- snotty,
- supercilious,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- toploftical,
- toplofty,
- twitting,
- withering
- Parthian shot,
- back answer,
- badinage,
- banter,
- barrack,
- be merry with,
- belly laugh,
- blue story,
- caustic remark,
- chaff,
- comeback,
- crack,
- crack a joke,
- crack wise,
- cut,
- cut at,
- cutting remark,
- dig,
- dig at,
- dirty joke,
- dirty story,
- double entendre,
- drollery,
- dump,
- dump on,
- ethnic joke,
- exchange,
- fleer,
- fleer at,
- flout,
- foolery,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- fun,
- funny story,
- gag,
- gibe,
- gibe at,
- gibing retort,
- give-and-take,
- good one,
- good story,
- good-natured banter,
- harmless teasing,
- haze,
- howler,
- jab,
- jab at,
- jeer,
- jest,
- jestbook,
- jive,
- joke,
- jolly,
- josh,
- kid,
- kid around,
- kidding,
- kidding around,
- laugh,
- leg-pull,
- make a funny,
- make fun,
- make fun of,
- mock,
- needle,
- panic,
- parting shot,
- persiflage,
- play,
- play on words,
- pleasantry,
- point,
- poke fun at,
- pooh,
- pooh-pooh,
- pun,
- put down,
- put on,
- put-down,
- put-on,
- quip,
- rag,
- rail at,
- raillery,
- rally,
- rallying,
- rank out,
- razz,
- revile,
- rib,
- rib tickler,
- ride,
- ridicule,
- riot,
- roast,
- rude reproach,
- scintillate,
- scoff,
- scoff at,
- scout,
- scream,
- scurrility,
- short answer,
- sick joke,
- sidesplitter,
- sight gag,
- slam,
- slap,
- slap at,
- sneer,
- sneer at,
- sparkle,
- sport,
- story,
- swipe,
- taunt,
- tease,
- twit,
- utter a mot,
- verbal thrust,
- visual joke,
- waggery,
- wheeze,
- wisecrack,
- witticism,
- wow,
- yak,
- yarn
- victimization
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- McCarthyism,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- calculated deception,
- circumvention,
- conning,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- dupery,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- hallucination,
- harassment,
- harrying,
- hoodwinking,
- hounding,
- illusion,
- kidding,
- mirage,
- oppression,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- persecution,
- phantasm,
- putting on,
- red-baiting,
- self-deception,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- tormenting,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- vision,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- witch-hunt,
- witch-hunting
- bantering,
- beaming,
- beatific,
- beatified,
- blessed,
- blissful,
- booing,
- capering,
- catcalling,
- chaffing,
- cheerful,
- chirping,
- dancing,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- fleering,
- flippant,
- flushed with joy,
- fooling,
- gay,
- glad,
- glowing,
- grinning,
- happy,
- hissing,
- hooting,
- jeering,
- joshing,
- joyful,
- joyous,
- kidding,
- laughing,
- leaping,
- leering,
- mocking,
- panning,
- purring,
- quizzical,
- radiant,
- ragging,
- railing,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- scoffing,
- singing,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smiling,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- sparkling,
- starry-eyed,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- thrice happy,
- twitting
- Attic,
- bantering,
- biting,
- brilliance,
- brilliant,
- chaffing,
- clever,
- cleverness,
- droll,
- facetious,
- facetiousness,
- fooling,
- funniness,
- funny,
- hazing,
- humorous,
- humorousness,
- humorsome,
- jesting,
- jocose,
- jocoseness,
- jocular,
- jocularity,
- joky,
- jollying,
- joshing,
- keen,
- keen-witted,
- keen-wittedness,
- keenness,
- kidding,
- mordant,
- nimble-witted,
- nimble-wittedness,
- pleasantry,
- pointed,
- pungency,
- pungent,
- quick-witted,
- quick-wittedness,
- ragging,
- rapier-like,
- razzing,
- ribbing,
- roasting,
- salt,
- saltiness,
- salty,
- scintillating,
- sharp,
- sharpness,
- smart,
- smartness,
- sparkling,
- sprightly,
- teasing,
- twitting,
- whimsical,
- wittiness,
- witty
- abatement of differences,
- accommodation,
- adjustment,
- agency,
- alternation,
- arrangement,
- badinage,
- balance,
- ballast,
- banter,
- bargain,
- barter,
- bartering,
- battledore and shuttlecock,
- boomerang,
- brokerage,
- buying and selling,
- chaff,
- changeable,
- colloquial discourse,
- colloquy,
- comeback,
- communication,
- communion,
- commutable,
- commutation,
- commutative,
- composition,
- compromise,
- concession,
- consideration,
- conversation,
- converse,
- conversing,
- convertible,
- cooperation,
- cop-out,
- counter,
- counterbalance,
- counterblast,
- counterblow,
- counterchange,
- counterpoise,
- counterstroke,
- counterweight,
- cross fire,
- deal,
- dealing,
- defensibility,
- desertion of principle,
- discourse,
- doing business,
- drumhead justice,
- dueness,
- equal,
- equalizing,
- equipoise,
- equitableness,
- equity,
- equivalent,
- evasion of responsibility,
- even,
- evenhandedness,
- exchange,
- exchanged,
- fooling,
- fooling around,
- giving way,
- good-natured banter,
- harmless teasing,
- horse trading,
- interchange,
- interchangeable,
- interchanged,
- intercourse,
- interlocution,
- intermutation,
- interplay,
- jape,
- jest,
- jive,
- jobbing,
- joke,
- josh,
- justice,
- justifiability,
- justifiableness,
- justification,
- justness,
- kidding,
- kidding around,
- lawfulness,
- legality,
- lex talionis,
- makeweight,
- measure for measure,
- meetness,
- merchandising,
- mutual,
- mutual admiration,
- mutual concession,
- mutual support,
- mutual transfer,
- mutuality,
- nemesis,
- offset,
- permutable,
- permutation,
- persiflage,
- pleasantry,
- poetic justice,
- properness,
- propriety,
- quid pro quo,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- rapping,
- reciprocal,
- reciprocality,
- reciprocating,
- reciprocation,
- reciprocative,
- reciprocity,
- recoil,
- reply,
- retailing,
- retaliation,
- retaliatory,
- retort,
- retributive justice,
- return,
- returnable,
- ridicule,
- right,
- rightfulness,
- rightness,
- rude justice,
- scales of justice,
- setoff,
- settlement,
- something for something,
- something of value,
- sport,
- standard,
- summary justice,
- surrender,
- swapped,
- swapping,
- switched,
- tit for tat,
- trade,
- traded,
- trading,
- trafficking,
- transposal,
- transposed,
- transposition,
- twit,
- understanding,
- verbal intercourse,
- warrantability,
- warrantedness,
- what is right,
- wheeling and dealing,
- wholesaling,
- yielding
- banter,
- bantering,
- beam,
- booing,
- bright smile,
- broad grin,
- catcalling,
- chaffing,
- derision,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- ear-to-ear grin,
- fleering,
- flippancy,
- flippant,
- fooling,
- gleaming smile,
- glowing smile,
- grin,
- hissing,
- hooting,
- idiotic grin,
- jeering,
- joshing,
- kidding,
- leering,
- levity,
- mockery,
- mocking,
- panning,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- ridicule,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- sardonic grin,
- scoffing,
- simper,
- smart,
- smart-aleckiness,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smartness,
- smile,
- smiling,
- smirk,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- stupid grin,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- toothful grin,
- twitting
- affront,
- aspersion,
- atrocity,
- banter,
- bantering,
- booing,
- brickbat,
- catcalling,
- chaffing,
- contempt,
- contumely,
- cut,
- derision,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- despite,
- dump,
- enormity,
- fleering,
- flippancy,
- flippant,
- flout,
- flouting,
- fooling,
- gibe,
- grinning,
- hissing,
- hooting,
- humiliation,
- indignity,
- injury,
- insult,
- jeer,
- joshing,
- kidding,
- leering,
- levity,
- mock,
- mockery,
- mocking,
- offense,
- outrage,
- panning,
- put-down,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- ridicule,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- scoff,
- scoffing,
- scurrility,
- smart,
- smart-aleckiness,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smartness,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- taunt,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- twitting,
- uncomplimentary remark
- Humism,
- Pyrrhonism,
- abusive,
- agnosticism,
- banter,
- bantering,
- blackening,
- blameful,
- booing,
- catcalling,
- censorious,
- chaffing,
- condemnatory,
- contemptuous,
- damnatory,
- denunciatory,
- deprecative,
- deprecatory,
- depreciative,
- derision,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- disparaging,
- doubt,
- execrating,
- execrative,
- execratory,
- fleering,
- flippancy,
- flippant,
- fooling,
- grinning,
- hissing,
- hooting,
- incredulity,
- invective,
- inveighing,
- jeering,
- joshing,
- judgmental,
- kidding,
- leering,
- levity,
- mockery,
- mocking,
- objurgatory,
- panning,
- priggish,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- reproachful,
- reprobative,
- reviling,
- ridicule,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- skepticism,
- smart,
- smart-aleckiness,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smartness,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- twitting,
- vilifying,
- vituperative
- snow job
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- allurement,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- blandishment,
- bluffing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- calculated deception,
- circumvention,
- coaxing,
- conning,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- dupery,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- exhortation,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- hallucination,
- hoodwinking,
- hortation,
- illusion,
- inducement,
- jawboning,
- kidding,
- lobbying,
- mirage,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- persuasion,
- phantasm,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- putting on,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- self-deception,
- selling,
- soft soap,
- solicitation,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- suasion,
- subterfuge,
- sweet talk,
- swindling,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- victimization,
- vision,
- wheedling,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- working on
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