Sentence examples for deliberately silly from inspiring English sources

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It was a deliberately silly image because it would be too depressing otherwise.

There turns out to be a good reason for it, however, in this sweetly entertaining, deliberately silly, fast-paced production.

His approach is all about quickfire gags and puns, and the more contrived and deliberately silly they are, the better.

The website certainly attracted some deliberately silly questions, but others seemed to treat their question as an achingly sincere offering: one they hoped would be treated with respect.

These form a big part of her stage act, allied to a barrage of deliberately silly gags and an infectiously positive attitude.

Kron's book and lyrics are an efficient and sympathetic distillation of the memoir and Tesori's score – which mixes yearning ballads with deliberately silly pop tunes – deserves to do very well come Tonys season.

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Like Sharknado, it is deliberately created to be silly, and so any proclamation that the film is bad can be countered with "Duh, it was intentional".

While you can easily get a pre-made scratching object (literally a box filled with cardboard) at your local pet store, it seems a little silly to deliberately buy something made completely out of cardboard, that's not even nice to look at.

You know she'd be horrified by that silly little Renée Zellweger, deliberately gaining weight to play her in the movies.

Mundine described Abbott's comments as "silly" and "bizarre", although deliberately provocative, culturally condescending, retrograde and insulting might have been more apt.

That evening, he was deliberately jolly when they met, even a bit silly, but she seemed to notice, so he stopped.

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