jocosity
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Like most of the BBC's new breed, he is always on message, and avuncular to a fault, addicted to unnecessary jocosity – what we doctors call John Inverdale syndrome.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2012
Catholic is likely to get into, and they do it with frankness and not a little abrasive jocosity of their own.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite the period jocosity, Sam's spats of spite, the bad blood over bad debts, and all too many last words with forgotten men who wronged him, Mark Twain's mastery remains.
From Time Magazine Archive
As I am of the experienced elite of society that sups, I must bid you adieu—I promise more jocosity in my next.
From Letters of a Dakota Divorcee by Burr, Jane
The term 'old boy' has, alas, declined upon the vernacular, and been put to base uses of jocosity, so it is a forbidden one.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas
“For these readers, it appeared, all took my idle jocosities with complete seriousness. . . . Pretty soon,” Mencken later wrote, “I began to encounter my preposterous ‘facts’ in the writings of other men. . . .
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2017
English translations, however, accompany the more salacious jocosities, and these invariably emasculate whatever finesse there may have been in the original.
From Time Magazine Archive
The play's emotional power derives from its harassed outcries and silences, from very human bafflements and needs, from a truly serious man's intensities and jocosities alike.
From Time Magazine Archive
And there is always the pleasure of hearing aristocrats indulging in their little jocosities, such as.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bainbridge had a fine sense of humor; but like many other humorists, he did not relish jocosities of which he was the subject.
From A Strange Discovery by Dake, Charles Romyn
