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

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

His rather sharp countenance, lighted by honest gray eyes, was a mixture of good-humor, childlike ingenuousness, and innocent jocosity.

From The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 by Stephens, Robert Neilson

From all this we may gather that Cicero was full of graceful and clever jocosity, but did not indulge in what was vapid and objectionable.

From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan