jocosely
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British Cabinet members openly, jocosely showed their lack of interest in the air force.
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He became known, jocosely, as "the little confessor of Hollywood."
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He had nine Rolls-Royces and three chauffeurs, a $400,000 yacht on which he once jocosely ran up a flag bearing skull & crossbones.
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Lord Dunsany jocosely boasts himself the most ill-dressed man in all County Meath.
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He was well aware of this, and jocosely justified himself before his friends by citing Cicero, who according to him was one of the greatest discoursers and meddlers whose memory is preserved by history.
From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
