jollying

Example Sentences

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It seems churlish to begrudge any efforts to spread positivity – but his messages can smack of a jollying stranger telling you to smile.

From The Guardian • Nov. 2, 2018

But he keeps flirting with girls, joking with small children, jollying jaundiced drivers along, all the while methodically stacking their dollar bills and making little quarter-nickel-dime pyramids for change.

From Time Magazine Archive

I got some news to tell ya, Woahoho About some wild, wild life Wild Wild Life, currently jollying up Top 40 radio, could be the Heads' happiest hit yet.

From Time Magazine Archive

The author has more on her mind, however, than jollying readers with not-so-mock rock lyrics.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was everywhere at once, pushing, pulling, sawing, hammering, improvising, jollying everyone along with comradely exhortations and giving out from every fold of his body what seemed an inexhaustible supply of acrid-smelling sweat.

From "1984" by George Orwell