jolly

Ostensibly, Livingston’s Mark is supposed to be the Grinch, Lennon’s character jolly old St. Nicholas, their eventual roles reversed as the chainsaws rev up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Cancel the tee booked at the Belfry, rearrange the trip to Cadbury World and abort the shopping jolly to the Bullring.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

The few talks that took place were, as he recalled, such jolly affairs.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 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

He forgave this punctuation only in his mother’s letters where a row of five indicated a jolly good joke.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

When they return from their jollies, they will have the task of keeping the Ashes alive past Christmas.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 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. 18, 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

What could be jollier on Christmas Day than a fresh instalment of one of the NFL’s most bitter rivalries?

From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2016

Basically, this is the same family crowd you might see on the weekends at the zoo, except much better dressed and maybe a bit jollier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2014

If Penelope had been in a jollier mood, the idea of Mrs. Clarke in a pair of ice skates, gracefully twirling and leaping across a frozen expanse, would have made her struggle not to laugh.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

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

It’s the jolliest thing in the show: a synchronized dance to the Pussycat Dolls song “When I Grow Up,” performed in heels, wigs and diaphanous floral-print caftans.

From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 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

Let’s just say, they’re not the jolliest of giants, those three stone brothers.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

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

Not only that, he jollied up his old friend Mickey Mantle by daring him to stage their long-delayed challenge sprint.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2012

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

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

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

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