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jollity

[jol-i-tee] / ˈdʒɒl ɪ ti /


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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

And of the delights and jollities of that life, dwelling here in a corner of England, thou canst not so much as cast an idea.”

From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt

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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