jollity
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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
Carminative—there was the idea of singing and the idea of flesh, rose-coloured and warm, with a suggestion of the jollities of mi-Careme and the masked holidays of Venice.
From Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
We wrote merry verse, bringing in the college jollities, in wanton student-fashion, and the good-natured old don who was our tutor affected to be pleased with our work.
From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton
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