jocularity
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The scene pulses with athletic jocularity, good-spirited fun with an edge of danger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
His attempts at jocularity had been thoughtless and misguided but not malevolent, his lawyer said, in a submission to the panel.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2023
What kept Mr. Jacomo in that place of honor, far more than his jocularity, was his competence and ability to adjust — profitably — when even the best-laid plans went awry.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2020
It’s no surprise, then, that plenty of Gemini Man feels like a slightly musty cable-replay staple, with that 1990s Jerry Bruckheimer military jocularity and a loving reverence for its lead actor’s movie-star face.
From The Verge ● Oct. 16, 2019
Raymond Birge, who became department chairman upon Elmer Hall’s passing that same year, was fond of remarking with a wry jocularity, “I don’t know what goes on over there in that Radiation Lab.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Then there was a banquet, at which Teacher Scopes stammered a few embarrassed words and the important lawyers indulged in brilliant jocularities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Krupp received the jocularities with the enigmatic good-fellow air with which he received everything.
From The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett
Ballad: The Played-Out Humorist Quixotic is his enterprise, and hopeless his adventure is, Who seeks for jocularities that haven't yet been said.
From Songs of a Savoyard by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
Normanby, still smarting from the attacks of Brougham, was made the mark for these jocularities, after his health being drunk thus: ‘Lord Normanby and the liberation of the Prisoners.’
From The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) by Charles Greville
It seems, from some jocularities attributed to his lordship, that he adds to his many other claims to distinction that of being a man of wit.
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton
Vocabulary lists containing jocularity
The Scarlet Letter
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