jocoseness
Example Sentences
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"Don't you approve of a wife burning incense before her husband?" said Sir Hugo, with an air of jocoseness.
From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George
No magazine of mirth exploded; no mine was sprung; and James entered into his chamber without any visible expression of jocoseness issuing from the fertile brains of Sir John Finett.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John
A reductio ad absurdum which attained serious attention, in spite of its patent jocoseness, appeared in an early number of the Dublin University Kottabos.
From Problems in Greek history by Mahaffy, John Pentland
The only talkative one of the party was Mr Bloxam, whose tongue continually tingled with ponderous jocoseness that had a strongly Scriptural flavour.
From By Veldt and Kopje by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
But Cowper's hares never appealed to the popular heart with the force of Burns's sheep and mice and dogs, and the tender familiarity and wistful jocoseness of his poems to beasts have never been surpassed.
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan
