jocund

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The book would have paired Hughes’s fervent poem about the pain of subjugation with Brown’s jocund illustrations of a lion:

From New York Times • May 25, 2023

The rest of the poem is about what “a jocund company” they make.

From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2020

That last part is a bit of cheek for effect, deleted quickly by a green cursor, a taste of the jocund energy that informs this six-part limited series.

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2019

Yes of course I am as jocund and elated as the next chiel at the success of Andy Murray and Chris Hoy and all those nice rowers and sailors.

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2012

So pipes Nana Gladstone so jocund and jiggy She ekes out her Nursery lilt with a joke.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, November 4th 1893 by Various