jocoseness
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The sailors touched their hats to him with a strange mixture of veneration and jocoseness.
From Hard Cash by Charles Reade
Yet can we wonder at the jocoseness of those arrayed in lawn and broad-cloth—can we marvel at the simper of the artisan fresh from his beef and pudding, solaced with tobacco and porter?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841 by Various
He said it with as much jocoseness as civility allowed, then at once rose.
From New Grub Street by George Gissing
Joseph walked homewards with deliberation, in absent mood, his countenance alternating strangely between a look of mischievous jocoseness and irritable concern; occasionally he muttered to himself.
From The Nether World by George Gissing
"Am I of any consequence?" he asked, with an effort at jocoseness.
From Jewel's Story Book by Clara Louise Burnham
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