antic
an tik
- n a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- v act as or like a clown
- s ludicrously odd
Hamlet's assumed antic disposition
- Oldtime journalists have almost stopped marvelling at the antics and contortions of the Associated Press, for a generation grave, factual and colorless under its late great .
- At the antic rate he is going, yaks and Bulgarian bears may be only a step or two away.
- But they form one coherent snapshot of a lost world, the antic, cosmopolitan Berlin of the 1930's, where jolly expatriates dance faster and faster, as if that would save them from .