jocularity

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

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

David Zinn’s scenic design adopts a puppet theater jocularity and Andrea Hood’s storybook costumes are as vivid as a box of Colorforms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024

“Miz Martha Washington” bears the signature of Ijames’s clever wit: He writes the slaves as more than docile stereotypes; these slaves have personality to spare, and they joke and sing with a threatening jocularity.

From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2021

They are rollicking riots of rib-tickling jocularity, side-splitting expeditions into the ironic arts.

From Washington Post ● May 20, 2021

And then again, there was something painfully familiar in the menace and male jocularity of that tape.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

Not that the jocularities were inane beyond the usual, but failure made them seem so.

From The Pretty Lady by Arnold Bennett

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

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

Krupp received the jocularities with the enigmatic good-fellow air with which he received everything.

From The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett