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
Both Portman and Hemsworth bring a lighthearted joviality to Love and Thunder that works well in moments when the movie’s highlighting the emotional connection that first brought Thor and Jane together.
From The Verge • Jul. 5, 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
