jocularity

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 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

Gleeful, as defined in the dictionary, suggests a sense of merriment, jocularity.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2022

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

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 Parton, James

Charnock perhaps was not at that moment in a mood for jocularities.

From Miranda of the Balcony A Story by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodle)

When the regiment came up, however, they forgot their mortification in the eager questioning and envious jocularities of the rest.

From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Keenan, Henry F. (Henry Francis)

He has, however, according to Horace, some low jocularities; and those smart sayings, which made the vulgar laugh, made him be pitied by men of higher taste.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Johnson, Samuel