jokey
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Starring Milly Alcock as Superman’s antisocial cousin, the franchise’s latest installment has a lackluster storyline overloaded with jokey antics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Rather than putting out a dry statement promising to cooperate with the authorities, five employees crafted a jokey response saying the robbers had taken KitKat’s “have a break” slogan a little too literally.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
The ambiguity of that hit single was unsettled further by more jokey elements on that album — like the cover of Gloria Gaynor’s disco anthem, ‘I Will Survive.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026
For his monologue, Wolfhard was joined by his “Stranger Things” co-stars Gaten Matarazzo and Caleb McLaughlin after showing a few jokey clips illustrating how much he grew up on the show, including going through puberty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2026
Even Dad called her that sometimes, but always in a jokey, complimentary way.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
Finland: Its best could be Nokia. 2,300 Style Invitational entries: even the best could be jokier.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2020
While the whole project is enjoyably looser, faster, jokier than Jemisin’s other novels, passages like this make it feel less disciplined or anchored in its rhetoric than her fantasy worlds.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2020
Other segments are indeed jokier in tone, since "Bubba the Love Sponge" was supposed to be a comedy show.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2019
There, it was altogether jokier; here it’s got an earnestly efficient cool.
From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2016
Others, such as Caledonian Smoking Picture, from the same year, are jokier.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2011
