jocularity

Still, Kimmel seems to relish the juxtaposition of his unpretentious jocularity and the Oscars’ pomp and circumstance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

His attempts at jocularity had been thoughtless and misguided but not malevolent, his lawyer said, in a submission to the panel.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2023

“Miz Martha Washington” bears the signature of Ijames’s clever wit: He writes the slaves as more than docile stereotypes; these slaves have personality to spare, and they joke and sing with a threatening jocularity.

From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2021

What kept Mr. Jacomo in that place of honor, far more than his jocularity, was his competence and ability to adjust — profitably — when even the best-laid plans went awry.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2020

“Certainly,” he said with a jocularity that I saw as false but was probably convincing for the others.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

Mr. Deacon now felt his little jocularities lost before a wall of the matter of fact.

From Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale

Not that the jocularities were inane beyond the usual, but failure made them seem so.

From The Pretty Lady by Arnold Bennett

He has, however, according to Horace, some low jocularities; and those smart sayings, which made the vulgar laugh, made him be pitied by men of higher taste.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson

Under such circumstances men at times give vent to jocularities which sound coarse and shocking.

From A Maid of the Silver Sea by John Oxenham