jolly

And if she'd jolly well kept herself to herself and been nominated as a leading actress they would have nominated me in supporting.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026

And maybe Van Dyke is a little like Santa: white hair, rosy cheeks, jolly and wholesome.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2026

The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index, at 52.9, was a touch below expectations of 53.4, but Wall Street was still in a jolly mood following yesterday’s cooler-than-expected consumer price index.

From Barron's ● Dec. 20, 2025

Ms. Wiles seems, in the piece, to have been allowed, perhaps even encouraged, to view her interlocutor as her friend, her jolly confidante.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

I jolly well don’t feel like reading anything Engel has sent me anymore tonight, but tomorrow is Sunday and there will be croissants with the coffee and I expect it will still be raining.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

Despite the gags and attention from Australian media about their time on the beach, England probably put in their best performance of a bad bunch in the Test after their jollies in Noosa.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025

Sunday was a tough day for those, like me, who get their entertainment jollies by watching losers try to redeem themselves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

The mercurial Mr. Musk said he wasn’t asking just for the jollies.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 18, 2022

“They figured out, let’s appeal to folks who get their jollies making fun of the stroke dude,” Fetterman said on MSNBC.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2022

Basically, if you get your jollies crawling on your hands and knees digging up fossilized poop, then you’ll really love an office full of the real thing—smell included.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

It also makes “Peacemaker” a jollier and more complicated view into the DC world than those we see in the movies because Chris Smith isn’t merely human, he’s average.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2022

Even the jollier song “Perfect Wife,” with its upbeat drums and lively flutes, feels somber in the broader context of the project.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021

The study also pondered on whether beards intensified a man’s character – making jolly men look jollier, angry men angrier.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2019

No odyssey was ever jollier, more symmetrical, or less characterized by either travel or solitude than this dance.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2018

“I hope Mama’s cousin was a little jollier than old Hugh,” Theodora said, still staring darkly into the fire.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

However, if you feel that level of pettiness in your soul, wishing the world a Happy Festivus may be one of the jolliest things you can do.

From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2022

When people ask me what life was like as a kid, I always say, “Oh, lovely. I always had the jolliest home life.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2019

It’s as jolly as the jolliest Merseybeat song, as sentimental as a Wings album.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2016

It was the jolliest I’d see him all day.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2013

And the man he was holding it for was the jolliest, fat, apple-cheeked, twinkling-eyed King you could imagine.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

The audience is jollied along by Veneziale with polite puckishness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2022

These weren’t people jollied by the guy with the funny hair.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2021

It was a perfect misunderstanding, between two strangers who’d been jollied into conjunction by a go-between—me, that is.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 2, 2019

Somehow, Perry’s hang has jollied up works by established creatives, has made witty the art by people who don’t make a living from their work, who just potter or sell the odd piece.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 3, 2018

Then Big Ma, who’d been jollied out of her fussing, was once again sharp and angry.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia

It seems churlish to begrudge any efforts to spread positivity – but his messages can smack of a jollying stranger telling you to smile.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 2, 2018

I got some news to tell ya, Woahoho About some wild, wild life Wild Wild Life, currently jollying up Top 40 radio, could be the Heads' happiest hit yet.

From Time Magazine Archive

The author has more on her mind, however, than jollying readers with not-so-mock rock lyrics.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he keeps flirting with girls, joking with small children, jollying jaundiced drivers along, all the while methodically stacking their dollar bills and making little quarter-nickel-dime pyramids for change.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was everywhere at once, pushing, pulling, sawing, hammering, improvising, jollying everyone along with comradely exhortations and giving out from every fold of his body what seemed an inexhaustible supply of acrid-smelling sweat.

From "1984" by George Orwell