jocularly

Example Sentences

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Jocularly, one morning, she had greeted the appearance of her father's middle-aged friend Lord Arnold with the cry, "Oh, look at the House of Lords!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Jocularly Canadians were remarking that John Buchan's new title, Baron Tweedsmuir, "sounds like some new kind of suiting," but most of them were in a mood to greet indulgently the smallish, sharp-nosed, pucker-lipped Scot.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jocularly Wales would call his sister-in-law, the Duchess of York, "Queen Elizabeth" at times, and when King George V died many believed that Edward was resolved to avoid the Throne by abdicating then and there.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jocularly I suggested the beastly heat as the first cause.

From The Shadow Line; a confession by Conrad, Joseph

Jocularly applied to those who are tall and of "genteel" build.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander