Even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Had the band hidden it as a cunning jape, I mused?. From Wordnik.com. [FallNews] Reference
The younger man ignored the jape, or pretended to. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
Well, that jape had cost him the offer of a drink. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
More room for the occasional micrometer-thin jape. From Wordnik.com. [Wednesday, March 25 – The Bleat.] Reference
Mind you, "wreck-ups" sound like a jolly good jape. From Wordnik.com. [Who'd Be a Young Tory on MySpace?] Reference
"And you've had your provocations," I tried to jape. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
Such little verses always made the best sort of jape. From Wordnik.com. [A Complaint to His Purse] Reference
They scamper and jape, even if they spit in the food. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
In any case, certainly not a jape. "a practical joke". From Wordnik.com. [Shorter Work] Reference
So I'm not sure why the reviewer used the word "jape.". From Wordnik.com. [Shorter Work] Reference
He must needs jape when he let himself think about that. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
She made the jape about the ears and everybody applauded. From Wordnik.com. ["But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked."] Reference
She made a jape of it, but I could see she was in earnest. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
Cambridge Union Society's pole-dancing jape is just plain daft. From Wordnik.com. [Actually, you won't find female empowerment halfway up a pole] Reference
“Thou put a jape on me, thou sodden-brained gull?” answered. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
It did not matter whether the jape was told by Ehomba or Simna. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
The picture in question below was photoshopped by some chap for a jape. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
Did noone learn anything from Yeovil or is this all another jolly jape?. From Wordnik.com. [Osborne Confirms Defection Approaches] Reference
The latest jape or it would be if it were funny is that of early release. From Wordnik.com. [Cut MP pay - the scum don't deserve a penny more.] Reference
Jumbo jape : a massive miniature collection one full decade in the making!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
An apprentice fetching Wool for his master had stopped to jape with a girl. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
And when I say this, I do jape with words, and may hap ye understond me not. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to Dead Authors] Reference
He said it with a grin, meaning it as an amiable jape, but she flared at him. From Wordnik.com. [The Drawing of the Three]
Other times it's just a jape about the femininity of one of them or the other. From Wordnik.com. [Meet GRRM and (maybe) cast and crew] Reference
Whoever described this story as a romp or a jape just wasn't paying attention. From Wordnik.com. [Shorter Work] Reference
Religulous might be called the first officialmovie jape of the Sarah Palin era. From Wordnik.com. [Toronto 2008: Bill Maher's 'Religulous' (plus two terrific docs) | EW.com] Reference
But one can't help feeling that there's a bit of a jape involved here somewhere. From Wordnik.com. [I say, you chaps...] Reference
He saw deeper than most, did her Dominic, and covered the hurt of it with a jape. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]
Includes an early jape at the fashionable empty left-wing politics of film actors. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
With that came Sir Dinadan, and when he saw Sir Tristram wroth he list not to jape. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
That eye wanted to cross, to discredit Perkus Tooth's whole sober aura with a comic jape. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem] Reference
‚Äö√Ñ√∫These people who think it is all a bit of a jape could end up in jail.‚. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Schools Ban Camera Phones Amid ‘Happy Slapping’ Craze] Reference
But until perhaps very recently can anyone recall any comparable jape about Barack Obama's foibles?. From Wordnik.com. [The Media's Man] Reference
Shitja e ARMO-s, Brace: Prokuroria te jape sqarime. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Donny Osmond not a fan of Lady Gaga's controversial Telephone video] Reference
Olatunde Osunsamni starts his little jape by having. From Wordnik.com. [Movie City News] Reference
His little jape has turned Whipple into a minor celebrity. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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