joke
[dʒoʊk]
Definition:
1. A humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter.
2. Activity characterized by good humor.
3. Act in a funny or teasing way.
'joke' example sentence:
- The women laughed coarsely at some vulgar joke.
- Most of his jokes were in very poor taste.
- Honest to God, Mary, I'm not joking.
- He didn't see the joke.
- Chapman was the family clown, with a knack for making a joke out of any situation.
- The audience laughed loudly at the joke.
- She joked that she only loved him for his money.
- They often joked about all the things that could go wrong.
- I can enjoy a joke as well as the next man, but this is going too far.
- It wasn't an easy audience but he raised a laugh with his joke.
- She smiled falsely at his joke.
- Whoever thought up that joke?
- She told a joke to lighten the atmosphere.
- I was tired of his cheap jokes at my expense.
- The joke is too rude to repeat.
- That wasn't a joke.
- He always comes out with the same tired old jokes.
- You're a joke!
- They often make jokes at each other's expense.
- Keep your shirt on! It was only a joke.
- His first joke got the biggest laugh of the night.
- It's no joke trying to find a job these days.
- I didn't get the joke.
- His jokes were completely lost on most of the students.
- Isobel, whose brother he was, had heard the joke before.
- She's going out with Dan? You're joking!
- I didn't mean that ─ I was only joking.
- His friends say he was always quick to tell a joke.
- Lysenko gave a deep rumbling laugh at his own joke.
- She was laughing and joking with the children.
- The trouble with her is she can't take a joke.
- He completely missed the joke.
- I managed to slip a few jokes into my speech.
- I managed to slip in a few jokes.
- He seemed to regard the whole thing as a joke.
- He carried on telling a joke, laughing his head off.
- She had no tolerance for jokes of any kind.
- They were sharing a private joke.
- He had us all in fits with his jokes.
- He laughed out loud at his own joke.
- Her precision became a standing joke with colleagues.
- Liz meant it as a joke but it fell flat.
- That joke's been done to death.
- She didn't get the joke.
- The girls giggled at the joke.
- I didn't find the joke at all amusing.
- It's his idea of a joke, I suppose, the scallywag.
- No disrespect intended sir. It was just a joke.
- He intended it as a joke.
- He entertained us for hours with his stories and jokes.
- She would joke about her appearance.
- This latest pay offer is a joke.