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Example sentences for: tongue-in-cheek

How can you use “tongue-in-cheek” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

An Exeter University academic once speculated, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, that it might come from the Latin graeculus , translated as Greekling with a derogatory flavour.
Angry, sarcastic, or tongue-in-cheek responses are most likely to be struck from the record.
7. "People, especially young people, realize that his appearance is meant to be tongue-in-cheek, with a fun edge."
No, worse than awful: desperate" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Instead of going for the tongue-in-cheek, campy horror style so popular of late, director Jan De Bont ( Speed ) relies on old-fashioned things-that-go-bump-in-the-night scares.
The F Word , the work of the scholar etymologist who is a resident editor in the dictionary department at Random House, proves to be a rare item indeed: a comprehensive, vastly eclectic, tongue-in-cheek serious treatment that has to be the first and last word on this world-class Word.