jocular
Example Sentences
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He’s a jocular talker who will frequently tap your arm or squeeze your shoulder for emphasis.
The incomprehensibility of it all, of every awful thing wreaking havoc at once, has Gus in a state of jocular shock.
From Los Angeles Times
The movie seems to recoil from its own hammering dramatics, with Bryce Dessner’s score toggling uneasily between jocular blues and dour, overcompensating strings.
From Los Angeles Times
The company’s aesthetic mode is wayward, oblique, loose and jocular.
From Los Angeles Times
And its inclusion in a national inventory of cultural heritage currently being created looks set to reignite the jocular dispute.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
