| 单词 | tongue-in-cheek |
| 释义 | tongue-in-cheek (once / 29923 pages) adjadv WORD FAMILY tongue-in-cheek USAGE EXAMPLESOnline tributes to Harambe turned into tongue-in-cheek tweets and punch lines. Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) As the field of journalism became professionalized in the late 1800s and early 1900s, respectable newspapers refused to publish deliberately false reports, even tongue-in-cheek ones. Los Angeles Times(Dec 20, 2016) Satirical sites like The Onion, which often jabs at political subjects through tongue-in-cheek humor, will not be affected by the changes. New York Times(Dec 15, 2016) 1adj cleverly amusing in tone tongue-in-cheek advice Syn bantering, facetious humorous, humourous full of or characterized by humor 2adv in a bantering fashion Syn banteringly 3adv not seriously Syn facetiously, jokingly |
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