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

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

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

One of the West Yorks also viewed life with much pluck and some jocosity.

From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 by Creswicke, Louis

She sang, and joked, and danced, and played, with an excess of jocosity that jarred him painfully.

From In the Roaring Fifties by Dyson, Edward