self-mocking
Americanadjective
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That means aggressively wacky aliens and self-mocking banter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
It was those sounds that opened her Glastonbury set, with the crunchy riffs of Obsessed, a self-mocking song about her jealousy; and the semi-autobiographical Diary Of A Homeschooled Girl.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025
As Irish journalist and author Fintan O’Toole notes, by the mid-20th century, “the self-mocking joke was that most Irish people were illiterate in two languages.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
Helped by Siddhartha Khosla’s score, the show occasionally achieves a lightly engaging, subtly self-mocking Hitchcockian vibe.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
She would be well aware of the extent of her self-mythologizing, and she gave her account a self-mocking, or mock-heroic tone.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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