self-mocking
Americanadjective
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A self-mocking appearance in a comedian's rugby skit also did big numbers, external.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
That is why he also calls his hybrid house the “absorbatory,” self-mocking but sincere: “a place to take it in, to dissolve, if such a thing is possible, the boundary between self and world.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 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
This perspective shift was heady: It wouldn’t get a big laugh but made for a memorable critique of comedy in big rooms and a self-mocking joke about how not everyone would get him.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
“Oh, clearly,” he agreed, self-mocking and more than a little pleased.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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