joviality

Example Sentences

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The next day, standing below the balcony of the Lorraine Motel where the team was staying in Memphis, King yelled down at Jackson in joviality, as if to mitigate the outburst, inviting him to dinner.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

A classmate at the time said she had turned the school "in completely the opposite direction" during the election, using her "personality, joviality and optimism".

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2023

One Christmas obligation is to bring tidings of comfort to those who, because they are suffering, find the obligatory joviality of the season off-putting and depressing.

From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2022

The joviality didn’t last long — or, rather, it flipped back and forth between dancers driving across the floor to more introspective moments for Marcellus, whose rich, layered vocalizations filled the theater.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2022

The discovery of his daughter restored his former joviality and the pleasure of being with her was slowly leading him away from dissipation.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez