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antic

/an-tik/US // ˈæn tɪk //UK // (ˈæntɪk) //

反式,反对,反对派,反式的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Usually antics. a playful trick or prank; caper.a grotesque, fantastic, or ludicrous gesture, act, or posture.
    • : Archaic. an actor in a grotesque or ridiculous presentation.a buffoon; clown.
    • : Obsolete. a grotesque theatrical presentation; ridiculous interlude.a grotesque or fantastic sculptured figure, as a gargoyle.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : ludicrous; funny.
    • : fantastic; odd; grotesque: an antic disposition.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    an·ticked, an·tick·ing.

    • : Obsolete. to perform antics; caper.

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Examples

  • Moreover, the increase in favor of conviction might suggest that at least some Republicans, having watched the last month of the former president’s antics as well as the fights over Reps.

  • Some Republicans also argued that Greene’s antics should be dealt with by the Ethics Committee.

  • These walkie talkies double as flashlights for nighttime antics or emergency situations.

  • The show is unexpectedly, wonderfully weird and seemingly designed to appeal to the very people who have written off superhero antics as low-brow entertainment.

  • It doesn’t always know what to do with some of its supporting characters, who are too often just literal messengers for Dash and Lily’s antics.

  • Berlusconi repeated the antic in the afternoon in the lower house of Parliament, this time to jeers from fellow politicians.

  • It was antic, manic, magical, and mischievous—and thoroughly British.

  • It has been left to Michael Moore, in his usual antic, flawed way, to enact a theatrical liberal insurgency.

  • The novel has the antic pace and madcap humor of a Hollywood-ready screenplay— Meet the Parents meets Garden State or something.

  • At British festivals our predecessors used to antic in the guise of a bull, and the bull-headed actor was entitled “The Broad”.

  • If a discovery in science is announced, he will execute you an antic upon it before it gets fairly cold.

  • I gritted my teeth at him, danced up and down, screaming an incoherent mockery and making antic faces.

  • Nor need one necessarily play an absurd antic to be natural.

  • Her laugh, at some clumsy antic of Leonidas or some word of mine, rang again and again through the solitude of our hiding place.