jocosity

Example Sentences

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Like most of the BBC's new breed, he is always on message, and avuncular to a fault, addicted to unnecessary jocosity – what we doctors call John Inverdale syndrome.

From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2012

Despite the period jocosity, Sam's spats of spite, the bad blood over bad debts, and all too many last words with forgotten men who wronged him, Mark Twain's mastery remains.

From Time Magazine Archive

Catholic is likely to get into, and they do it with frankness and not a little abrasive jocosity of their own.

From Time Magazine Archive

He fetched his friend's forgotten medicine from his bedroom and administered it, and told him with a lame attempt at jocosity that he should have a penny if he took it like a lamb!

From Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir by Macnaughtan, S. (Sarah)

I'm kind o' hard-up," he said, with grim jocosity, "but there's a pound to keep your pouch.

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas