jocularity

No smile, no jocularity, no sense that he had just won a major victory.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

Still, Kimmel seems to relish the juxtaposition of his unpretentious jocularity and the Oscars’ pomp and circumstance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

For all its burlesque jocularity, Mr. Scott asserted, his job was no less taxing as a result.

From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2021

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

Obviously there was to be no jocularity tonight.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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

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

Ireland has been prolific in delineators of her suffering and crimes, jocularities and bulls, both in poetry and prose.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton

She would eat only convent fare at first, notwithstanding the importunities of the waiters, and the jocularities of the captain, and particularly of the clerk.

From Balcony Stories by Grace E. King

Mr. Deacon now felt his little jocularities lost before a wall of the matter of fact.

From Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale