How To Use Jape In A Sentence
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Maria began to laugh jovially, as though this was all just a jape.
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If by this point you are not already delirious, fear not, even more jolly japes and lunacy are to follow.
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And God wol nat be gyled, quoth Gobelyn, ne be _japed_.
Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850
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When he was exhausted he sat up; and they told stories and japed, till they were breathed enough to get up and dance.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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Having previously tried various shades of sexism, anti-environmentalism, liberal-baiting which, to be fair, works, and must be extremely satisfying and other offensive/hilarious topics too numerous and tedious to mention, the team this week settled on "xenophobic japery" as the hue du jour.
This Week: Lord Wei, Craig Oliver, Richard Hammond
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Mathews concocts burlesques and parodies of such rare excellence as to put one in mind of the broad literary japery of Terry Southern at his most inspired.
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Cambridge Union Society's pole-dancing jape is just plain daft.
Actually, you won't find female empowerment halfway up a pole
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Thus far the storyline has consisted of endless scenes in which rhubarbing menials stand around with folded arms, the mood pitched somewhere between the knockabout rustic japery of Straw Dogs and the apocalyptic menace of a Yeo Valley ad.
World Of Lather
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They were always in the corner together giggling and plotting japes.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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Jape Devon stepped out of his Warbird as the rasping engines shut down.
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Another favourite jape is to get the bridegroom blind drunk and then shave off all his hair, including his eyebrows and where the sun does not shine.
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But the whole show is meta, in truth, and quite deep, too, for all the japery.
The Detective Show
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A minstrel show became four or so men in blackface doing rough and rowdy songs on banjo, fiddle, tambourine and clacking bones, interspersed with japes, skits and dancing.
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A little jape on himself, and one that would certainly deliver more concrete rewards than his loftier verse.
A Complaint to His Purse
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For those that got in, we drank away until the wee small hours and talked of old times, japes and larks.
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[14 Mar 02] My vague sense of emptiness at the lack of regular japeries from old friend James is finally dispelled by his triumphant return to blogging at Gas Giant.
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Evenings we attacked dinner, surprised at how often we japed and laughed; afterward we took our ease before a stone fireplace, in dimness that burning pine logs made flickery fragrant, and talked more seriously, traded memories, thoughts, and-shyly at first-dreams.
Explorations
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even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point
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If Elizabeth was the King's trusty squire, Margaret was his jester, winning his affection - as she learned to attract social attention - by jokes, japes and mischief.
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The endless possibilities for net-japery suggested here, however, may be a mere pipedream.
Archive 2009-02-01
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As he japed and mugged and fidgeted, he seemed worried by something more than Iraq or the election returns; his whole character appeared to be wrestling with some more personal, inner demon.
The Rescue Squad
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People would halt the progress of whatever parley they were engaged in and turn to stop him in aisles and antechambers, demanding an instant jape or trick from him.
Knell Quarternion
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Although I am never actually intentionally cruel to my parents, there is one little jape I like to have at this time of year.
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The more Clinton upended the expectations of the boys on the bus, the more those boys reverted to Moose lodge–style japery toward her and her sex.
Big Girls Don’t Cry
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Santol Sandoricum koetjape: Although a native of Laos, Cambodia and Malaysia, santol has spread all throughout the Philippines and Tagum has an abundance of it.
Archive 2005-07-01
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If by this point you are not already delirious, fear not, even more jolly japes and lunacy are to follow.
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Even Lincoln, despite typical undergraduate japes, is hardly a hotbed of gossip.
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If the terms lunate, tunulate or crefcent-JJjaped be objected to, we may ufe the periphrafis, JJjaped like a crcfccni, for any form of a leaf, &c. refembling the moon in any period of her firfi: quarter; fince tills term does not occur very frequently.
The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...
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Such little verses always made the best sort of jape.
A Complaint to His Purse
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UPDATE I think I've been japed by this Amazon reviewer… My irony detector must be on the blink this morning.
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Well I'm sure they will be laughing if we pick him, but not because of his jolly japes.
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Right so came Dinadan, and mocked and japed with King Bagdemagus that all knights laughed at him, for he was a fine japer, and well loving all good knights.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Yours, true to your blood (for you are _Scot Scotorum_), is the humorist's way: how many passengers you have warmed and tickled with your genial chaff, hiding constant kindness under a jocose word, perhaps teasing us Americans on our curious conduct of knives and forks, or (for a change) taking the cisatlantic side of the jape, esteeming no less highly a sound poke at British foibles.
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
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Ron suspected that she knew that he and Alan would be off for schoolboy japes and wizard pranks at any opportunity.
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Then there was one man in another ship that japed, and said: Ween ye to carry away the body of S. Mark?
The Golden Legend, vol. 3
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The Huffington Post noted the references as well as more "jokes" in the same vein (including a video of Cooper's jape, over which David Gergen cluelessly chortles).
Who Ordered the Petard?
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The jury heard that the funsters had been given the keys to the house by their boss, Mr Ahern, on the assumption that he would be joining them soon for a summer of high octane japes.
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Situated just up the road from the national stadium, there was fun, games and jolly japes, allowing young fans and those just young at heart to enjoy their own pre-match entertainment.
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The brand might be no mark of honour at all - but a culminating cruel humiliating jape.
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There are lots of jokes and japes, as well as hard work.
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There is no doubt that away from the microphone and jolly japes there was a complex and serious man.
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In The New York Times, Brooks Atkinson didn't much admire the newspaper portrait but said the play was ‘full of raucous japeries with a sense of humor.’
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Mathews concocts burlesques and parodies of such rare excellence as to put one in mind of the broad literary japery of Terry Southern at his most inspired.
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We don’t want to criminalise a group of students, but at the same time we don’t want to treat the problem as some kind of jape, either.
Parents Interferring with Kids Education | Impact Lab
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I remember when I was a young boy, 1 April fell on a Saturday, so the Football League decided to create a 'hilarious' jape by sending referees and linesmen with thematically linked names to the same game," recalls Robin Tucker.
The Knowledge: April fool! | Scott Murray
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Most of production are vended to occident , Europe and America, Japen, Korea, Southeast Asia, etc.
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The Huffington Post noted the references as well as more "jokes" in the same vein (including a video of Cooper's jape, over which David Gergen cluelessly chortles).
Who Ordered the Petard?
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I particularly enjoyed the jolly japes and larks of Ping the Elastic Man, Tin-Can Tommy and Whoopee Hank the slapdash sheriff.
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In just one year, Pruitt's subversive japery has become indistinguishable from full-fledged art-world approval matrices -- hardly anyone remembers the ice age of 2009, when the awards were cleverly castrated as "performance.
Selby Drummond: Art "Oscar" for Second Gay Ryan in a Row?
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He meets Godfrey, Emilia's brother, and together they share a long series of wild japes and adventures.
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Vajapeya sacrifices, or if he undergoes the severest austerities with head downmost.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
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A gype, a glaik and a galoot were all commonly hurled jibes in our house, a home filled with tomfoolery and japes well beyond the time when we should all have grown up and known better.
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The Third Man is very much a jape - a sardonic waltz set to the mocking gaiety of its infectious zither theme.
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At school I sat in anticipation of the day that Mr Sutton would come in and tell us that everything we had learned so far had been an elaborate jape on his part, and the real stuff would now begin.
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The fans responded in kind, cheering him and howling with laughter at his relentless japery.
Jonah Keri: Tim Raines, Andre Dawson, and Being an Expos Fan
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Afterward they caressed, laughed, japed, spread two straw ticks on the floor that they might have real room to move about, played, loved, his head rested between her breasts, she urged him anew and yet anew, he swore he had never known the match to her and the believing of him was a tall fire.
The Boat of a Million Years
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‘Feminists on Men’ contains more ribald japery about men being stupid.
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At the Chelsea Flower Show, Ann-Marie Powell finds garden designers looking to a geometric future and enjoys japesters taking a sly dig at the past
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It's when we met the Ramsays and Robinsons, got whipped up in the romance of Scott and Charlene, hated Mrs Mangel but fancied her dowdy granddaughter Jane, and laughed along to the "larrikin" japes of Des
Hecklerspray
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The jury heard that the funsters had been given the keys to the house by their boss, Mr Ahern, on the assumption that he would be joining them soon for a summer of high octane japes.
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Chef Nikki Billington and her partner Paul Watson had always made running a restaurant feel less like a business venture and more like a jolly jape.
The 20 best places to eat in Britain this summer
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Still these biker boys made out such things were mere pranks, a witty jape for a Sunday afternoon.
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That eye wanted to cross, to discredit Perkus Tooth's whole sober aura with a comic jape.
Excerpt: Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
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One uproarious jape later, they had a story that, with a little embellishment, would keep them in drink for months, and possibly even form the basis of their next novel.
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Yes, there will be stunts - a previous jape involved sending three crisp-munching dwarves to disrupt a magazine industry conference - but there will also be his brand of dark, occasionally cruel humour.
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In just one year, Pruitt's subversive japery has become indistinguishable from full-fledged art-world approval matrices--hardly anyone remembers the ice age of 2009, when the awards were cleverly castrated as "performance.
Selby Drummond: Art "Oscar" for Second Gay Ryan in a Row?
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The show cloaks itself in wholesome, old-fashioned japery with its broad misunderstandings ("I said ghosts, not goats!") and knowing winks at Hi-de-Hi! and Frank Spencer, and the way Miranda's mother (Patricia Hodge) flits in and out as if through a time portal to a 1950s Whitehall farce.
Rewind TV: Miranda; The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret; Accused: Willy's Story; Garrow's Law
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It is a send-up - nationalism as a postmodern jape.
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Even Ponting describes the quiet as "appalling" on one of his intertitles, which otherwise often have a jolly-jape feel.
The disquieting sound of The Great White Silence
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It is hard to believe that this man captained an Essex side renowned for their humour and jolly japery.
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For those that got in, we drank away until the wee small hours and talked of old times, japes and larks.
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This is no time for a jolly jape, a ruffle of the hair and a 'cripes'.
Times, Sunday Times
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I like the way they laugh and jape while queuing for baguettes, chips, burgers or whatever takes their fancy, and I like the way they stand and sit in small groups to take their lunch in good company.
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What cheered me up further was the readiness of the coach drivers to jape and joke about with people who didn't understand English.
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Carthage were three bishops together at dinner, and one of them spake evil by detraction of S. Ambrose, and there was a man that told what was befallen for such language to this aforesaid priest, but he mocked and japed so much that he felt a stroke mortal; that that same day he died and was buried.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3
