as a joke

Synonyms

humorously whimsically flippantly jokingly facetiously jocularly light-heartedly banteringly

Antonyms

earnestly humorless seriously long-faced

Examples

All of Creation's a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest. William Shakespeare

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. Will Rogers

I always thought of Levittown as a joke. Bill Griffith

I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain. Ben Folds

I have a lot of glass in my house, and I remember saying as a joke once that I clean my stuff with Windex while my friends are over, but then I found myself actually doing that the other day. It's horrible. Courteney Cox

I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me. Dick Cavett

Words in the phrase

as a joke

Close letter words and terms

as a group as a hostile witness as a job as a lamb to the slaughter as a last resort as a lever