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asteism
noun
Polite irony; a genteel and ingenious manner of deriding another
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asteism
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socratic irony
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genteelism
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ironize
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ironic
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unsarcastic
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waggery
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irony
,
witty
,
drollingly
,
sarcastic
,
unhumorous
,
dramatic irony
,
sardonian
,
genteelness
,
sarcasm
,
clever
,
jocoseness
,
antiphrasis
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amuse
,
trenchancy
,
humorous
,
sardonicism
,
ironical
,
sardonic
,
cynical
,
astucious
,
laugh at
,
cacozelia
,
comical
,
droll
,
irrision
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drollist
,
subsannation
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antiphrastic
,
polite
,
laughworthy
,
jocundity
,
satire
,
wry
,
wittified
,
unrhetorical
,
acrimoniousness
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bumbledom
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satirical
,
unpompous
,
sense of humour
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argute
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orgulous
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snarky
,
eloquent
,
amusable
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ingenious
,
laugh down
,
invulgar
,
flippant
,
solert
,
laconize
,
humourous
,
unreverently
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toplofty
,
ridiculize
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black humor
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unelegant
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condescendence
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irrisible
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ludibrious
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nugacity
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hething
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mockery
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joke
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farand
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laughable
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funny
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unreverent
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mordacity
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comicalness
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jocoserious
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ingracious
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unrude
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make fun
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outlaugh
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inerudite
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pretentious
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deridingly
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absurd
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irreverent
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slyboots
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accostable
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jucundity
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facetious
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vafrous
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lighthearted
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plausive
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maladdress
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insipient
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humor
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amusingly
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featly
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disingenuous
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crass
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asteism
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