jocularity

The scene pulses with athletic jocularity, good-spirited fun with an edge of danger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

His attempts at jocularity had been thoughtless and misguided but not malevolent, his lawyer said, in a submission to the panel.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2023

There’s a kind of jocularity and a camaraderie among you, but there’s also a current of tension and rivalry.

From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2020

What kept Mr. Jacomo in that place of honor, far more than his jocularity, was his competence and ability to adjust — profitably — when even the best-laid plans went awry.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2020

He retains hold of my arm, and as he talks his spine straightens imperceptibly, his chest expands, his voice assumes more and more the sprightliness and jocularity of youth.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

Then there was a banquet, at which Teacher Scopes stammered a few embarrassed words and the important lawyers indulged in brilliant jocularities.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the regiment came up, however, they forgot their mortification in the eager questioning and envious jocularities of the rest.

From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

Ireland has been prolific in delineators of her suffering and crimes, jocularities and bulls, both in poetry and prose.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton

Charnock perhaps was not at that moment in a mood for jocularities.

From Miranda of the Balcony A Story by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodle) Mason

Normanby, still smarting from the attacks of Brougham, was made the mark for these jocularities, after his health being drunk thus: ‘Lord Normanby and the liberation of the Prisoners.’

From The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) by Charles Greville