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jovial

[joh-vee-uhl] / ˈdʒoʊ vi əl /


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The large-scale audience participation of “Twenty-Sided Tavern” naturally invites a jovial, party-like atmosphere.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

Considering the somber subject, Mr. Gallot’s jovial tone may surprise.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

The Getty Villa survived the fires and it can survive this jovial, if half-baked, Sophoclean circus.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025

That sounds a lot like the way Carson lived, based on the way a 1978 New Yorker profile summed up the venerated host’s jovial froideur.

From Salon • Jul. 31, 2025

Alexandrians easily recognized their queen and her jovial companion.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby