jocoseness

Example Sentences

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"I went there, but I had taken flight," the doctor answered with gloomy jocoseness.

From Anna Karenina by Garnett, Constance

Indifferent to the progress of time, Bevis talked on with his usual jocoseness, now and then shaking his tawny hair in a fit of laughter the most contagious.

From The Odd Women by Gissing, George

And, by the way," said the parson, stooping to Scotch in his ministerial jocoseness, "how's auld Tam, in whose class you were a prize-winner?

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas

"Am I of any consequence?" he asked, with an effort at jocoseness.

From Jewel's Story Book by Burnham, Clara Louise

It was Mr. Mawmsey's friendly jocoseness in questioning him which had set the tone of Lydgate's reply.

From Middlemarch by Eliot, George