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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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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Is such footwear now trendy or is this some kind of tongue-in-cheek statement from the pocket-sized sheila?
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tongue-in-cheek advice
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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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a droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This tongue-in-cheek electro pop anthem has already gone platinum in the US.
The Sun
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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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A rare combination of horror, tongue-in-cheek humor and actual eroticism. 1976.
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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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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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Kate's tongue-in-cheek interview was given half a page, and the Globe immediately asked her for more articles.
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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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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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Her latest play is a firmly tongue-in-cheek look at the world of advertising.
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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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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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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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I know you meant that tongue-in-cheek, butstill...
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the Pedophile Blogger:
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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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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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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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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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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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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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During the first two seasons, creators treated even the most perilous situations with a tongue-in-cheek attitude.
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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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Our style is decadent and tongue-in-cheek.
Times, Sunday Times
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The odd tongue-in-cheek was bound to drive most clodplates, cretins and cullies crazy.
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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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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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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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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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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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A tongue-in-cheek golf tournament invitational takes place at the top of Dundas every year.
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Tauranga police today issued a tongue-in-cheek statement saying a robbery had taken place.
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This tongue-in-cheek electro pop anthem has already gone platinum in the US.
The Sun
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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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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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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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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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A rare combination of horror, tongue-in-cheek humor and actual eroticism. 1976.
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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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Use tongue-in-cheek comments and emoticons only if you know the recipient really well.
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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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These tongue-in-cheek observations are not intended to be disparaging.
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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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This tongue-in-cheek electro pop anthem has already gone platinum in the US.
The Sun
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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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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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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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I love that kind of tongue-in-cheek wit.
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Uber recently ran a not altogether tongue-in-cheek, misandrist post on why she hates men.
Archive 2009-04-01
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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 film crew was there filming a tongue-in-cheek interview with the proprietress of the place.
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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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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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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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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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Her latest play is a firmly tongue-in-cheek look at the world of advertising.
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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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Yet his tongue-in-cheek whimsy has an uncanny knack of transporting you back to the event itself.
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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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I admit it, I'm always a sucker for these tongue-in-cheek uses of mythology for product advertising.
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The song, added to the tongue-in-cheek scenario, made this a hilarious little jewel.
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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 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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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 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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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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Rather than set out to offer an alternative to novelty acts, it cashes in on cheap tongue-in-cheek tack.
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They form a tongue-in-cheek rock band spouting lyrics as funny as they are profane.
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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.
