jocularly

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Jocularly, one morning, she had greeted the appearance of her father's middle-aged friend Lord Arnold with the cry, "Oh, look at the House of Lords!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Jocularly Wales would call his sister-in-law, the Duchess of York, "Queen Elizabeth" at times, and when King George V died many believed that Edward was resolved to avoid the Throne by abdicating then and there.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jocularly Canadians were remarking that John Buchan's new title, Baron Tweedsmuir, "sounds like some new kind of suiting," but most of them were in a mood to greet indulgently the smallish, sharp-nosed, pucker-lipped Scot.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jocularly remarking that he reckoned he would have to ride this tin broncho with a slick heel, the "dogger" unbuckled his spurs and stepped into the boat.

From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)

Jocularly he added: "Well known on the metropolitan stage."

From The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life by Walter, Eugene