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

For all its burlesque jocularity, Mr. Scott asserted, his job was no less taxing as a result.

From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2021

They are rollicking riots of rib-tickling jocularity, side-splitting expeditions into the ironic arts.

From Washington Post ● May 20, 2021

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

Not that the jocularities were inane beyond the usual, but failure made them seem so.

From The Pretty Lady by Arnold Bennett

He jibed at him as a vulgar impostor; but it is easy to perceive, under his scornful jocularities, the traces of an uneasy respect.

From Eminent Victorians by Giles Lytton Strachey

These jocularities are interesting otherwise than politically; thin and weakly as they are, they inaugurated the style of later political caricature.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various

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