Words similar to tongue-in-cheek

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.
The Alphabet Abecedarium is the bibliophile's answer to the botanist's stroll through the garden, being an eminently enjoyable omnium gatherum of recondite, recherché, and obscure arcana and lore about the letters of our Latin alphabet written in a light, conversational, self-deprecatory, tongue-in-cheek style.
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.
A few reviewers discern "tongue-in-cheek" humor in the use of sex symbol Gibson as a "poster boy for schizophrenia," and declare the film smarter than "other high-ticket summer fare" (Jack Mathews, Newsday ). (Click here for the Conspiracy Theory site.)
Angry, sarcastic, or tongue-in-cheek responses are most likely to be struck from the record.