Synonyms for Pulling one's leg:

• adj.

  •facetious (adjective)
  • flip,
  • satirical,
  • merry,
  • flippant,
  • jocose,
  • indecorous,
  • ridiculous,
  • jesting,
  • comical,
  • whimsical,
  • blithe,
  • funny,
  • humorous,
  • Capering,
  • frivolous,
  • jocular,
  • gay,
  • pleasant,
  • clever,
  • sprightly,
  • comic,
  • smart,
  • waggish,
  • sarcastic,
  • amusing,
  • dry,
  • fanciful,
  • joshing,
  • droll.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • laughable,
  • funnier,
  • farcical,
  • facetious,
  • punning,
  • ludicrous,
  • playful,
  • flipper,
  • wisecracking,
  • joking,
  • ironic,
  • salty,
  • irreverent,
  • sportive,
  • witty,
  • wry,
  • putting one on,
  • not serious.
  •tongue-in-cheek (adjective)
  • jokingly,
  • in fun,
  • in jest,
  • kiddingly,
  • ironical,
  • tongue in cheek.

• v.

  •cheat (verb)
  • take in,
  • con,
  • take for a ride,
  • DO,
  • take,
  • pull one's leg.
  •dupe (verb)
  • overreach,
  • hornswoggle,
  • outwit,
  • baffle,
  • dust,
  • kid,
  • gull,
  • hoax,
  • pull something,
  • chicane,
  • betray,
  • catch,
  • circumvent,
  • cheat,
  • spoof.
  •extort (verb)
  • get,
  • shake down,
  • demand.
  •joke (verb)
  • kid around,
  • play the clown.
  •ridicule (verb)
  • travesty,
  • make a laughing-stock,
  • lampoon,
  • rally,
  • make fun of,
  • cartoon,
  • make a fool of,
  • unmask,
  • satirize,
  • rail at,
  • caricature,
  • parody,
  • RAZ,
  • put down,
  • scorn,
  • pooh-pooh,
  • show up,
  • takeoff,
  • humiliate,
  • gibe,
  • twit,
  • haze,
  • poke fun at,
  • mimic,
  • send up,
  • pan,
  • run down,
  • sneer,
  • quiz,
  • jeer,
  • laugh at,
  • make a game of,
  • deflate,
  • expose,
  • scoff,
  • Fleer,
  • ride.
  •satirize (verb)
  • caricaturize.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • flimflam,
  • rook,
  • defraud,
  • milk,
  • mislead,
  • victimize,
  • obtain,
  • deride,
  • clip,
  • sting,
  • quip,
  • fleece,
  • fudge,
  • finagle,
  • fool,
  • burlesque,
  • coerce,
  • frame,
  • jape,
  • josh,
  • do a number on,
  • squeeze,
  • play,
  • make merry,
  • skin,
  • fast talk,
  • shaft,
  • trim,
  • put screws to,
  • sandbag,
  • frolic,
  • jolly,
  • hold up,
  • needle,
  • taunt,
  • evince,
  • give bum steer,
  • soak,
  • gyp,
  • banter,
  • sucker,
  • bleed,
  • bunco,
  • sport,
  • wrench,
  • scam,
  • diddle,
  • rip off,
  • hoodwink,
  • deceive,
  • ridicule,
  • put on,
  • bully,
  • fake out,
  • ice,
  • make pay through nose,
  • elicit,
  • murphy,
  • extract,
  • shuck,
  • play games with,
  • bilk,
  • put the arm on,
  • burn,
  • revel,
  • scout,
  • snow,
  • bamboozle,
  • short,
  • mock,
  • wisecrack,
  • secure,
  • stiff,
  • horse around,
  • gammon,
  • gouge,
  • dupe,
  • two-time,
  • cross,
  • play tricks,
  • jive,
  • double-deal,
  • cozen,
  • take out,
  • caboodle,
  • ream,
  • crib,
  • fun,
  • jerk around,
  • chaff,
  • rope in,
  • gambol,
  • swindle,
  • pun,
  • force,
  • roast,
  • exact,
  • rib,
  • jest,
  • wring,
  • double-cross,
  • pinch,
  • educe,
  • laugh,
  • set up,
  • chisel,
  • delude,
  • rag,
  • hose,
  • stick,
  • bluff,
  • run a game on,
  • poke fun,
  • screw,
  • wrest,
  • beguile,
  • trick,
  • beat.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • tongue-in-cheek.

Antonyms for Pulling one's leg:

• adj.

  • facetious
    serious, formal, unfunny, grave.
  • tongue-in-cheek
    respectful, reverent.

• v.

  • cheat
    fail, help, aid, be honest, offer, give, assist, lose, protect.
  • dupe
    support, be serious.
  • extort
    let go, unfasten, surrender, loosen, forfeit, yield.
  • joke
    flatter, praise, compliment.
  • ridicule
    approve.
  • twit
    commend, admire, laud, build up.