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61foolishness — n 1. senselessness, meaninglessness, thoughtlessness, shallowness, vacantness, blankness, vacuousness, emptiness; vapidity, vapidness, insipidity, insipidness, flatness, dullness, tediousness; stupidity, asininity, imbecility, idioticalness,… …
62jape — n jest, joke, gag, quip, Inf. wisecrack, Inf. crack; drollery, waggery, witticism, squib, pun, crank; trick, practical joke, prank, caper, antic, shenanigan, tomfoolery, monkeyshine; jeer, gibe, twit, fleer …
63jocosity — n 1. playfulness, prankishness, sportiveness, clownishness; jocularity, drollery, facetiousness, wit, humor; humorousness, comicalness, amusingness, drollness, delightfulness; laughableness, ludicrousness, absurdity, farcicality, ridiculousness,… …
64levity — n 1. lightness, light heartedness, airiness; frivolity, frivolousness, flippancy, giddiness, trifling, triviality; folly, foolishness, silliness, fatuity, foolery; tomfoolery, asininity, ridiculousness, waggery; jollity, jocularity, jocundity,… …
65nonsense — n 1. absurdity, absurdness, nonsensi calness, nonsensicality; ridiculousness, ridiculosity, ludicrousness; asininity, stupidity, fatuity, fatuousness; meaninglessness, self contradiction, contradiction, invalidity; incongruity, incongruousness,… …
66persiflage — n banter, badinage, repartee, word play, verbal wit, wittiness; pleasantry, frivolity, fun and games, clowning or fooling around, buffoonery; jesting, joking, levity, humor, drollery, jocularity, jocosity, waggery; teasing, twitting, taunting,… …
67pleasantry — n 1. banter, teasing, Inf. kidding, Inf. ribbing, Inf. joshing; raillery, repartee, wordplay, badinage; joking, jesting, drollery, jocularity, waggery; ridicule, mockery, Inf. ragging, Brit. quizzing. 2. joke, quip, gag, wisecrack, funny remark;… …
68quip — n 1. gibe, jape, Inf. wisecrack, Inf. crack, put down, barb, Sl. zinger, squib, smart aleck remark. 2. joke, jest, witticism, sally, mot, bon mot, ad lib; gag, waggery, drollery, one liner, wheeze, pleasantry; pun, double entendre; epigram,… …
69repartee — n 1. give and take, witty conversation, lively exchange, tit for tat, measure for measure, stroke for stroke; badinage, banter, raillery, wordplay, persiflage; joking, jesting, pleasantry, drollery, jocularity, waggery, Inf. kidding, Inf. kidding …
70shenanigan — n Usu. shenanigans Informal. tomfoolery, antics, Sl. monkeyshines, Sl. monkey business; mischief, prankishness, Inf. hanky panky, Scot, and North Eng. daffing; prank, antic, caper, escapade, trick, practical joke, roguish trick, Fr. espieglerie;… …
