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Adjective

Having the quality or characteristic of a joke or of being jestful

Intended to provoke or make fun of someone in a playful way

Noun

The subjection of someone or something to contemptuous and dismissive language or behavior

Joking, tricks

The state or quality of being ludicrous

Verb

Present participle for to tell a joke or talk in a playful manner

Present participle for to tease, typically in a good-natured way

Present participle for to deceive or fool someone

Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of

Present participle for to tell a lie or something that is untrue

Present participle for to engage in an activity for enjoyment and recreation

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Adjective

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Having the quality or characteristic of a joke or of being jestful

inquiring^US

enquiring^UK

sceptical^UK

skeptical^US

flakey^US

flaky^UK

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“He chided her in a kidding way.”

Adjective

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Intended to provoke or make fun of someone in a playful way

Noun

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The subjection of someone or something to contemptuous and dismissive language or behavior

pulling someone's chain

good-humoured mockery

rancor^US

rancour^UK

backhanded compliment

libeling^US

libelling^UK

character assassination

pretense^US

pretence^UK

caviling^US

cavilling^UK

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Noun

Joking, tricks

pretence^UK

pretense^US

Noun

The state or quality of being ludicrous

ludicrousness

absurdity

foolishness

humor^US

humour^UK

gambolling^UK

gamboling^US

good humour^UK

good humor^US

vigor^US

vigour^UK

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Verb

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Present participle for to tell a joke or talk in a playful manner

“Well let us not kid ourselves - our roll of honour is not exactly bursting at the seams with feats of glorious achievement.”

Verb

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Present participle for to tease, typically in a good-natured way

satirizing^US

taking the piss out of

satirising^UK

making a monkey out of

treating with contempt

baiting

guying

pulling someone's leg

holding up to ridicule

treating contemptuously

pulling someone's chain

playing a practical joke on

holding up to shame

getting a rise out of

playing a practical joke

gambolling^UK

gamboling^US

leading up the garden path

having a joke with

mucking someone about

having a joke on somebody

making a laughing-stock

making someone a laughing stock

laughing out of court

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

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“My dad used to kid her and tease her about it on election day.”

Verb

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Present participle for to deceive or fool someone

pulling the wool over someone's eyes

pulling a fast one on

victimizing^US

victimising^UK

ripping off

leading up the garden path

taking to the cleaners

leading down the garden path

giving someone a bum steer

leading up garden path

playing a practical joke on

getting the better of

pulling someone's leg

chiseling^US

chiselling^UK

playing fast and loose with

sending on a wild-goose chase

putting on an act

putting on false front

exploiting

putting up smoke screen

giving wrong information to

wrong steering

giving the wrong impression

sending on a wild goose chase

putting on the wrong track

throwing off the scent

manoeuvring^UK

maneuvering^US

putting someone up to something

doing out of

selling a bill of goods

biasing^US

biassing^UK

stage-managing

twisting around your little finger

hypnotizing^US

mesmerizing^US

hypnotising^UK

mesmerising^UK

saying something untrue

misinstructing

telling a white lie

departing from the truth

not telling the truth

telling a terminological inexactitude

bearing false witness

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Verb

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Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of

giving the appearance of

going through the motions

giving appearance of

making show of

putting on act

going through the motions of

putting on a false display

passing oneself off as

making as if

shucking and jiving

putting on a false front

creating out of thin air

making out like

playing the part

letting on like

doing an impression of

putting up a front of

presenting a false front

presenting a false face

laying it on thick

putting on a pretense

hamming

playing to the gallery

favouring^UK

favoring^US

giving a false identity to

assuming the character of

disguising oneself as

representing oneself as

putting up a smoke screen

monkeying

doing an impression

doing likewise

following in footsteps

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Present participle for to tell a lie or something that is untrue

Verb

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Present participle for to engage in an activity for enjoyment and recreation

gambolling^UK

gamboling^US

revelling^UK

reveling^US

kicking up one's heels

going on a spree

letting your hair down

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