jocosity

Example Sentences

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Like most of the BBC's new breed, he is always on message, and avuncular to a fault, addicted to unnecessary jocosity – what we doctors call John Inverdale syndrome.

From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2012

Catholic is likely to get into, and they do it with frankness and not a little abrasive jocosity of their own.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite the period jocosity, Sam's spats of spite, the bad blood over bad debts, and all too many last words with forgotten men who wronged him, Mark Twain's mastery remains.

From Time Magazine Archive

The term 'old boy' has, alas, declined upon the vernacular, and been put to base uses of jocosity, so it is a forbidden one.

From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas

But gradually he came to feel that there was something more than jocosity in her denunciation of the bouncey ball.

From Years of Plenty by Brown, Ivor