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jollity

[jol-i-tee] / ˈdʒɒl ɪ ti /


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Still, there is profit and occasional jollity in brisk recapitulations of seminal events by a fluent storyteller with an eye for telling detail and apposite quotation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025

As the Lib Dems gather in Bournemouth this weekend for their annual get together, there will be a certain amount of understandable jollity.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2025

Around the time of February’s Grammy Awards, Shaboozey appeared to have tired — reasonably! — of “Tipsy’s” rootsy jollity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2025

“Yeah, I’ll give you a sticker for free,” Massry says, with the forced jollity of a bartender at 2 a.m.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2024

I acted as if I was convinced by the jollity in Mama’s voice.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

Stan's last surviving relative became coy and refused to enter into the jollities.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2011

A great outpouring of grief and anger and sorrow and doubt had to take place before the certainties and jollities of the mature writer could come into being.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 6, 2005

Pranks and jollities slide from gentle flippancy to hurly-burly burlesque.

From Time Magazine Archive

So Al- Mutalammis and his wife abode together in all comfort and solace of life and in all its joys and jollities till death parted them.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

And of the delights and jollities of that life, dwelling here in a corner of England, thou canst not so much as cast an idea.”

From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt




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