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Adjective

Having the quality or characteristic of a joke or of being jestful

Noun

The subjection of someone or something to contemptuous and dismissive language or behavior

Jesting, kidding, or engaging in malarkey

The state of being jocose

Verb

Present participle for to fool or deceive someone, especially in a playful manner

Present participle for to tease, typically in a good-natured way

Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of

Present participle for to tell a lie or something that is untrue

Present participle for to engage in an activity for enjoyment and recreation

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Adjective

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Having the quality or characteristic of a joke or of being jestful

tantalizing^US

tantalising^UK

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“He chided her in a kidding way.”

Noun

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The subjection of someone or something to contemptuous and dismissive language or behavior

pulling someone's chain

humor^US

humour^UK

rancor^US

rancour^UK

backhanded compliment

black humor^US

distorted representation

false impression

exaggerated drawing

exaggerated representation

pretence^UK

pretense^US

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Noun

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Jesting, kidding, or engaging in malarkey

Noun

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The state of being jocose

humor^US

humour^UK

black humor^US

good humour^UK

good humor^US

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Verb

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Present participle for to fool or deceive someone, especially in a playful manner

pulling a fast one on

stinging

bilking

victimizing^US

pulling a swifty on

pulling the wool over someone's eyes

victimising^UK

leading up the garden path

taking to the cleaners

leading down the garden path

giving someone a bum steer

leading up garden path

getting the better of

pulling someone's leg

chiseling^US

chiselling^UK

playing fast and loose with

sending on a wild-goose chase

putting up smoke screen

giving wrong information to

wrong steering

giving the wrong impression

sending on a wild goose chase

putting on the wrong track

covering up

putting on an act

putting on false front

throwing off the scent

selling down the river

outslicking

overcharging

manoeuvring^UK

maneuvering^US

selling a bill of goods to

selling a bill of goods

doing someone in the eye

deking

weaseling^US

weaselling^UK

putting someone up to something

biasing^US

biassing^UK

slipping something over on

pulling something funny

hitting below the belt

bribing

letting down

implicating

playing someone false

involving

breaking faith with

making a monkey of

making somebody look an idiot

making a monkey out of

twisting around your little finger

going one better than

finding a loophole in

tampering with

exploiting a loophole in

departing from the truth

not telling the truth

saying something untrue

inventing a story

telling a terminological inexactitude

committing perjury

telling a falsehood

telling stories

bearing false witness

breaking promise

telling untruths

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“Tell the truth and don't kid yourself that you'd have been President.”

Verb

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Present participle for to tease, typically in a good-natured way

satirizing^US

taking the piss out of

satirising^UK

making a monkey out of

pulling someone's leg

treating with contempt

holding up to ridicule

pulling someone's chain

treating contemptuously

playing a practical joke on

pooh-poohing

telling jokes

getting a rise out of

playing a practical joke

gambolling^UK

gamboling^US

leading up the garden path

putting on an act

making a laughing-stock

making someone a laughing stock

laughing out of court

mucking someone about

reveling^US

revelling^UK

disdaining

having a joke on somebody

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

dishonoring^US

turning your nose up at

casting aspersions on

treating disrespectfully

looking down upon

trash-talking

throwing shade

look down one's nose at

treating with disdain

spitting in the eye of

spitting on

turning back on

turning down

spitting in the face of

hacking you off

getting on the nerves of

getting in the hair of

saying contemptuously

making cutting remarks about

victimizing^US

libeling^US

libelling^UK

turning up one's nose

hurting somebody's feelings

stepping on one's toes

victimising^UK

doing an injustice to

ill-using

antagonising^UK

imposing on

stepping on the toes of

going for jugular

hitting where one lives

laying a bad trip on

giving no quarter

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“My dad used to kid her and tease her about it on election day.”

Verb

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Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of

giving the appearance of

going through the motions

giving appearance of

making show of

putting on act

going through the motions of

putting on a false display

passing oneself off as

making as if

shucking and jiving

putting on a false front

putting up a smoke screen

putting up a front of

presenting a false face

presenting a false front

minimizing^US

putting on a pretense

making up

playing to the gallery

minimising^UK

sweeping under the rug

sweeping under the carpet

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Verb

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Present participle for to tell a lie or something that is untrue

Verb

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Present participle for to engage in an activity for enjoyment and recreation

gambolling^UK

gamboling^US

revelling^UK

reveling^US

kicking up one's heels

going on a spree

letting your hair down

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