jocular

Example Sentences

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He’s a jocular talker who will frequently tap your arm or squeeze your shoulder for emphasis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

The company’s aesthetic mode is wayward, oblique, loose and jocular.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2025

But his jocular manner put many of them at ease, he said.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2024

He had the jocular demeanor of a college tour guide, an energy I hadn’t expected.

From Slate • May 18, 2024

Julian and he were talking—in jocular, mocking, pedantic Latin—like a couple of priests tidying the vestry before a mass.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt