tongue-in-cheek

How To Use tongue-in-cheek In A Sentence

• 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
• Even the most silly distorted fact, tongue-in-cheek headline or top-spinned newspaper tales concerning Hibs put this awkward customer on the warpath.
• Is such footwear now trendy or is this some kind of tongue-in-cheek statement from the pocket-sized sheila?
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• To greet the annual Nobel Prizes, tongue-in-cheek scientists in the United States handed out their own "Ignobel" awards.
• a droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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