How To Use Tongue-in-cheek In A Sentence
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As he introduces another series showcasing the culinary delights of his homeland, he sends a tongue-in-cheek warning to other celeb chefs.
The Sun
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Uber recently ran a not altogether tongue-in-cheek, misandrist post on why she hates men.
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I love that kind of tongue-in-cheek wit.
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One, by cult musician Momus, is a tongue-in-cheek audioguide to city bus routes tip: don't believe everything you hear.
(g)Host City: How I found the invisible city
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The platform at the front of the stage rises up like a pulpit, as Neil suddenly comes on like a crazed tub-thumping preacher man, delivering a bizarre sermon which starts off tongue-in-cheek, and ends up largely sincere.
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I use the word dignity in a tongue-in-cheek way, because I realized I hadn't come far in the past 31 years when it comes to letting go of summer without wrapping my body around it and holding on for dear life.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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This tongue-in-cheek electro pop anthem has already gone platinum in the US.
The Sun
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On the other hand, it is extremely enjoyable to read especially if you like techno-fiction and are in the mood for some tongue-in-cheek cyberpunk.
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These tongue-in-cheek observations are not intended to be disparaging.
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When we got together I suggested it needed some New Orleans funeral music, half tongue-in-cheek, because their music is, well, you might say on the funereal side and they thought that was just ideal.
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Use tongue-in-cheek comments and emoticons only if you know the recipient really well.
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The tone was modern, and the films were tongue-in-cheek homages to the zombie greats.
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A rare combination of horror, tongue-in-cheek humor and actual eroticism. 1976.
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The rumor came from a tongue-in-cheek comment from Turner that he would colorize the film in order to bait critics of the process.
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My tongue-in-cheek postscript admits that I don't know everything about this band, that there's more to the story, and throws in a few cheap shots.
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He highlighted in A Benedick in Arcady the rules to be followed, tongue-in-cheek, by the "Complete Trespasser".
Country diary: Langsett
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FSJ cracked the tech industry up for more than a year by writing tongue-in-cheek posts as if he were Apple CEO Steve Jobs (known on the blog as RSJ - Real Steve Jobs).
Fake Steve Jobs revealed
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This tongue-in-cheek electro pop anthem has already gone platinum in the US.
The Sun
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Tauranga police today issued a tongue-in-cheek statement saying a robbery had taken place.
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A tongue-in-cheek golf tournament invitational takes place at the top of Dundas every year.
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In a tongue-in-cheek article, Scoopertino introduces the iHand, crafted from European beechwood and available in a range of skintones, from Caucasian to "Kermit.
IHand Solves Finicky iPhone 4's Reception Problems (PICTURE)
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I admit it, I'm always a sucker for these tongue-in-cheek uses of mythology for product advertising.
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Meanwhile, the Chinese public is fascinated by Ms. Hung's personal brand, her family background, and her tongue-in-cheek commentary that offers a glimpse into the world of China's privileged class.
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They form a tongue-in-cheek rock band spouting lyrics as funny as they are profane.
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Rather than set out to offer an alternative to novelty acts, it cashes in on cheap tongue-in-cheek tack.
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Very good tongue-in-cheek approach ... and the gent is right, this is no laughing matter.
GOP says even bloodhounds can't find stimulus jobs
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The sketches take the reader into our lurid political past, the author tossing out the appositely tongue-in-cheek quote, the well-informed political parallel abroad.
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So he presents his arguments in what is often called a ‘tongue-in-cheek’ manner, but is more accurately described as facetiousness.
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The parentheses in that sentence are meant to be tongue-in-cheek, and that's really the tone I was aiming for there: a straightforward description with a little bit of irony added.
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When Goody arrives, his gruff, dictatorial but tongue-in-cheek interplay with the young servicemen must be seen to be appreciated.
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The song, added to the tongue-in-cheek scenario, made this a hilarious little jewel.
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They cannot afford to mock the bands they model themselves on but a bit of tongue-in-cheek humour doesn't go amiss either.
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The rather tongue-in-cheek ending to his piece complemented the rather shifty looking photograph of the Baroness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet his tongue-in-cheek whimsy has an uncanny knack of transporting you back to the event itself.
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While aesthetically pleasing, the tongue-in-cheek site also tries to answer every previously unasked question regarding phlegm-lore and spit superstitions.
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Her latest play is a firmly tongue-in-cheek look at the world of advertising.
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Perhaps Beldar intends his post to be tongue-in-cheek, so maybe I'm just not getting the joke by looking at the merits.
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I could see her so clearly, trying not to laugh, eyes dancing while she made her witty, tongue-in-cheek recording.
THE SAVING GRACES
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When she composes a tongue-in-cheek advertisement for the role of her new partner, she outlines a series of necessary qualifications in bulletpoint format.
After You: Letters of Love, and Loss, to a Husband and Father by Natascha McElhone
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As he introduces another series showcasing the culinary delights of his homeland, he sends a tongue-in-cheek warning to other celeb chefs.
The Sun
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A film crew was there filming a tongue-in-cheek interview with the proprietress of the place.
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They're too tongue-in-cheek, too savvy and intelligent to be discounted as amateurs, yet sophomoric enough to not buckle to pretentiousness and delusions of grandeur.
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However, beneath the partly tongue-in-cheek braggadocio on his first solo LP in seven years, he clearly feels he has something yet to prove.
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Kate's tongue-in-cheek interview was given half a page, and the Globe immediately asked her for more articles.
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The flight attendants crack jokes, the check-in staff actually smile and even the airline's name for its red-and-white planes is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Aussie habit of calling redheads "Blue''.
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A wooden carving of a berobed angel salvaged from another church is yet more tongue-in-cheek.
Times, Sunday Times
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A rare combination of horror, tongue-in-cheek humor and actual eroticism. 1976.
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City governments passed tongue-in-cheek ordinances prohibiting Skylab from entering the municipal limits, or inviting it into the town, depending on the mood they were in.
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This tongue-in-cheek electro pop anthem has already gone platinum in the US.
The Sun
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She studied with the newly controversial Glenn Black at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, N.Y. She describes Black as "a masterful yogi and a bodyworker who specializes in a type of Orthopedic Physical Therapy called Bodytuning" she continues, a bit tongue-in-cheek "my relationship with my teacher is a very old fashioned mentor-mentee, very wax-on wax-off.
E. Nina Rothe: The Culture of Wellbeing: Jill Miller and the Great Yoga Controversy
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Patrons who liked Carlsberg were once treated to an alternative draught beer called Probably and other tongue-in-cheek variations on popular brand names.
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The Special Effects are technically good, just deliberately very cornball, and the film as a whole is somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
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Demonstrating a tongue-in-cheek knowledge of Internet memetics, the title cleverly derives from the popular Simpsons quote The goggles!
Goggleburn to Highlight Online Video Hits
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As he introduces another series showcasing the culinary delights of his homeland, he sends a tongue-in-cheek warning to other celeb chefs.
The Sun
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I imagine the statement you read about Supreme Court dicta being binding was tongue-in-cheek, talking more about how courts tend to behave with respect to certain dicta, rather than how they formally are required to behave.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Diane Wood on the Second Amendment
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Wikipedia has an interesting blurb about it: "Whilst he was in fact describing an actual geological feature - a laccolith which he saw as resembling a cactus 1 - he was also, tongue-in-cheek, commenting on what he saw as an absurd number of "-lith" words in the field of Geology.
Archive 2008-03-01
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a droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor
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To greet the annual Nobel Prizes, tongue-in-cheek scientists in the United States handed out their own "Ignobel" awards.
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tongue-in-cheek advice
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Is such footwear now trendy or is this some kind of tongue-in-cheek statement from the pocket-sized sheila?
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Even the most silly distorted fact, tongue-in-cheek headline or top-spinned newspaper tales concerning Hibs put this awkward customer on the warpath.
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One such tongue-in-cheek invitation that has brought a lot of smiles, especially among those in the advertising industry here, is that of Shaji and Sini, who are to tie the nuptial knot in Kochi next week and settle down in Coimbatore.
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The author's energetic, often tongue-in-cheek prose style, together with his ability to blend roguish satire, pathos, and picturesque description, had a profound influence upon the popular culture of his day.
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His tongue-in-cheek lyrics and sex-drenched growling vocals, gave a huge smackdown to the critics and music industry tools blatant ignorance of indie bands.
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Now adopt some of that tongue-in-cheek, self-deprecatory humor on your own social media outposts.
Debbie Weil: Open Letter to BP: Three Tips on How to Use Social Media and the Web to Diffuse Your PR Crisis
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The odd tongue-in-cheek was bound to drive most clodplates, cretins and cullies crazy.
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Our style is decadent and tongue-in-cheek.
Times, Sunday Times
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An easy-to-read guide is circulating within the ranks, via email, offering a tongue-in-cheek explanation to terminology used by the Ministry of Defence.
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During the first two seasons, creators treated even the most perilous situations with a tongue-in-cheek attitude.
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But the designers say the messages, printed in the style of a car number plate, are tongue-in-cheek and claim key letters have been replaced with numbers.
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His tongue-in-cheek interviews with himself, written at the peak of his fame, now look soaringly dull.
The Times Literary Supplement
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As he introduces another series showcasing the culinary delights of his homeland, he sends a tongue-in-cheek warning to other celeb chefs.
The Sun
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Among owners of springer spaniels the phenomenon is widely recognized; they call it "springer rage," only slightly tongue-in-cheek.
The Truth About Dogs
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As he introduces another series showcasing the culinary delights of his homeland, he sends a tongue-in-cheek warning to other celeb chefs.
The Sun
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One tongue-in-cheek ad was primarily a promotion for an auction being sponsored by ABC, but it served a double purpose, promoting Alias in the process.
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Four male dancers, two drag comediennes and about 10 ladyboys will be performing their tongue-in-cheek routines in a storm of colour, glitter and spectacular costumes.
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I know you meant that tongue-in-cheek, butstill...
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One of the things that struck me about them was that the lyrics were cryptic, but also intertextual and definitely tongue-in-cheek.
LNN interviews Casey Rae-Hunter on his new album : The Lovecraft News Network
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The show is titled “Jimmy Big Time” and it is a tongue-in-cheek peek at an outdoor anti-hero; a relatively clueless dolt who spooks game, mangles equipment and generally makes a fool of himself.
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He is a tongue-in-cheek ironist, a cartoonist, and a smart one; his images hit upon our neuroses yet even the most vituperative of them seem tame and acceptable.
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Her latest play is a firmly tongue-in-cheek look at the world of advertising.