jollity
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Still, there is profit and occasional jollity in brisk recapitulations of seminal events by a fluent storyteller with an eye for telling detail and apposite quotation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
As the Lib Dems gather in Bournemouth this weekend for their annual get together, there will be a certain amount of understandable jollity.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2025
Around the time of February’s Grammy Awards, Shaboozey appeared to have tired — reasonably! — of “Tipsy’s” rootsy jollity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2025
“Yeah, I’ll give you a sticker for free,” Massry says, with the forced jollity of a bartender at 2 a.m.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2024
Oh, along at first I missed being a night owl—the tunes, the jollity.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Stan's last surviving relative became coy and refused to enter into the jollities.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2011
A great outpouring of grief and anger and sorrow and doubt had to take place before the certainties and jollities of the mature writer could come into being.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 6, 2005
Pranks and jollities slide from gentle flippancy to hurly-burly burlesque.
From Time Magazine Archive
Who at the same moment could have been so merry and so melancholy,—could have gone so deep into the regrets of life, with words so appropriate to its jollities?
From Thackeray by Anthony Trollope
Ah, though her mirth and jollities She puts aside, The silent laughter of her eyes She cannot hide.
From Cap and Gown A Treasury of College Verse by Frederic Lawrence Knowles
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