jokey

Example Sentences

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Rather than putting out a dry statement promising to cooperate with the authorities, five employees crafted a jokey response saying the robbers had taken KitKat’s “have a break” slogan a little too literally.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

"It wasn't jokey, it was quite venomous," she said.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025

“Dracula” was birthed initially as a jokey response to his anti-commercial tendencies — as if Jude could ever make a conventional horror movie.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025

So he fired off a jokey text message to Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

“Tommy, you don’t seem very pleased for me,” I said, though in an obviously jokey voice.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro