jocularity

David Zinn’s scenic design adopts a puppet theater jocularity and Andrea Hood’s storybook costumes are as vivid as a box of Colorforms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 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

Gleeful, as defined in the dictionary, suggests a sense of merriment, jocularity.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2022

“Miz Martha Washington” bears the signature of Ijames’s clever wit: He writes the slaves as more than docile stereotypes; these slaves have personality to spare, and they joke and sing with a threatening jocularity.

From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2021

And then again, there was something painfully familiar in the menace and male jocularity of that tape.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

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

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

Ballad: The Played-Out Humorist Quixotic is his enterprise, and hopeless his adventure is, Who seeks for jocularities that haven't yet been said.

From Songs of a Savoyard by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert

Krupp received the jocularities with the enigmatic good-fellow air with which he received everything.

From The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett