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Adjektiivit
- (architecture, arts) Grotesque, incongruous.
- Grotesque, bizarre; absurd.
Substantiivit
- (architecture, arts, obsolete) A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
- (animation, from "anticipation") A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping
- A caricature.
- (often in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour.
- A grotesque performer or clown.
Verbit
- (intransitive) To perform antics.
- (obsolete) To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.
- (transitive, rare) To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.
- (transitive) To make appear like a buffoon.
Esimerkit
- The amusement park environment of seaside resorts such as Venice and the antic eclecticism of Greene & Greene's pre-Craftsman work all preceded the establishment of the movie colony in Hollywood.
- a fourth would fondly kiss and paw his companions, and sneer in their faces, with a countenance more antic than any in a Dutch droll.
- As I perchance hereafter shall think meet / To put an antic disposition on.
- Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave / Come hither, cover'd with an antic face, To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
- The Grave-maker, like the professional fools and Falstaff, and like Hamlet himself, is an antic, a grotesque, one who demonstrates to men how foolish and
- I saw the barren horror of your people's leisure with the million entertained by the antics of a tiny few[...]
- And fraught with antics as the Indian bird / That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage.
- Pintsize: Wait, don’t you want to know why I’m tied up and hanging from the ceiling? / Faye: Not really. Nighty night! / Pintsize: Shit! My wacky antics have jumped the shark!
- Jerry no more than cocked a contemptuous quizzical eye at the mainsail anticking above him. He knew already the empty windiness of its threats,
- Gentle lords, let's part; / You see we have burnt our cheeks: strong Enobarb / Is weaker than the wine; and mine own tongue / Splits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost / Antick'd us all.
- She unfastened her dress, her arms arched thin and high, her shadow anticking her movements.
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