jocosity
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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
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
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
To be bald is no more than a genial jocosity, a harmless foible—but to have dandruff is almost as bad as to have beri-beri.
From A Book of Burlesques by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
Let him amuse the children, relax with jocosity the sternness of adults, and wreathe into smiles the wrinkles of old age.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 by Various
“For these readers, it appeared, all took my idle jocosities with complete seriousness. . . . Pretty soon,” Mencken later wrote, “I began to encounter my preposterous ‘facts’ in the writings of other men. . . .
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2017
The play's emotional power derives from its harassed outcries and silences, from very human bafflements and needs, from a truly serious man's intensities and jocosities alike.
From Time Magazine Archive
And there is always the pleasure of hearing aristocrats indulging in their little jocosities, such as.
From Time Magazine Archive
English translations, however, accompany the more salacious jocosities, and these invariably emasculate whatever finesse there may have been in the original.
From Time Magazine Archive
She listened graciously to his jocosities, stealing a glance at Harry when his father called him "a good boy."
From Frivolous Cupid by Hope, Anthony
