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jocular

How to use jocular in a sentence

He insisted on working games alone — no jocular jock sidekick, no bantering crosstalk.

The translator could think of no better word, because the context is jocular.

A tutor at college and a Museum attache; very jocular; given to personal witticisms, which were often aimed at Goriot.

The verb “to bag,” for instance, is in jocular use for implying a petty appropriation of property.

Probably few persons who allow themselves the enjoyment of that rather jocular expletive, the deuce!

She soon began to find sinister meaning in the jocular speeches that are current in the world as to the inconstancy of men.

Howell Gruffydd, who had been as thunderstruck as the rest of them, now affected to take a jocular view of the matter.

And he played, with variations, an imaginary tune On the buttons of his waistcoat, like a jocular bassoon.

Charnock was ready with jocular sympathy if one fell or a stone bruised somebody's hand, and his jokes spurred on the weary.

The latter fell, or tried to force himself, into a jocular mood and bearing, according to his custom on serious occasions.

SEVENOAKSJ. G. HOLLAND

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985