jocund
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The design eschews signaling traditional utility in favor of a jocund modernism—call it orbital chic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
The book would have paired Hughes’s fervent poem about the pain of subjugation with Brown’s jocund illustrations of a lion:
From New York Times ● May 25, 2023
The rest of the poem is about what “a jocund company” they make.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2020
That last part is a bit of cheek for effect, deleted quickly by a green cursor, a taste of the jocund energy that informs this six-part limited series.
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2019
More, for she succeeded in emitting such a jocund and appropriate peal of laughter as disconcerted the mob and wrung for behoof of the stranger a gratified inclination from my lord.
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Romeo and Juliet
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