jocularity

No smile, no jocularity, no sense that he had just won a major victory.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

The scene pulses with athletic jocularity, good-spirited fun with an edge of danger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

For all its burlesque jocularity, Mr. Scott asserted, his job was no less taxing as a result.

From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2021

They are rollicking riots of rib-tickling jocularity, side-splitting expeditions into the ironic arts.

From Washington Post ● May 20, 2021

And then again, there was something painfully familiar in the menace and male jocularity of that tape.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Then there was a banquet, at which Teacher Scopes stammered a few embarrassed words and the important lawyers indulged in brilliant jocularities.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the regiment came up, however, they forgot their mortification in the eager questioning and envious jocularities of the rest.

From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

Ballad: The Played-Out Humorist Quixotic is his enterprise, and hopeless his adventure is, Who seeks for jocularities that haven't yet been said.

From Songs of a Savoyard by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert

Charnock perhaps was not at that moment in a mood for jocularities.

From Miranda of the Balcony A Story by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodle) Mason

Ireland has been prolific in delineators of her suffering and crimes, jocularities and bulls, both in poetry and prose.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton