jocosely
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He became known, jocosely, as "the little confessor of Hollywood."
From Time Magazine Archive
British Cabinet members openly, jocosely showed their lack of interest in the air force.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus the Bulgars will have double incitement to buy Fords, often jocosely called "road bugs," for pleasant travel in their craggy country.
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Lord Dunsany jocosely boasts himself the most ill-dressed man in all County Meath.
From Time Magazine Archive
He surrendered them all in 1885, having reached the age at which, as he jocosely remarked to the writer, “Every scientific man ought to be poleaxed.”
From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Edward Clodd
