jocularity
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No smile, no jocularity, no sense that he had just won a major victory.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
There’s a kind of jocularity and a camaraderie among you, but there’s also a current of tension and rivalry.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2020
What kept Mr. Jacomo in that place of honor, far more than his jocularity, was his competence and ability to adjust — profitably — when even the best-laid plans went awry.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2020
“After 87 and a half minutes of jocularity, the movie pivots in that final shot and ends up in a space that I hope people will find surprising,” Soderbergh explained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2019
Raymond Birge, who became department chairman upon Elmer Hall’s passing that same year, was fond of remarking with a wry jocularity, “I don’t know what goes on over there in that Radiation Lab.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Then there was a banquet, at which Teacher Scopes stammered a few embarrassed words and the important lawyers indulged in brilliant jocularities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Normanby, still smarting from the attacks of Brougham, was made the mark for these jocularities, after his health being drunk thus: ‘Lord Normanby and the liberation of the Prisoners.’
From The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) by Greville, Charles
Ballad: The Played-Out Humorist Quixotic is his enterprise, and hopeless his adventure is, Who seeks for jocularities that haven't yet been said.
From Songs of a Savoyard by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir
These jocularities are interesting otherwise than politically; thin and weakly as they are, they inaugurated the style of later political caricature.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
He jibed at him as a vulgar impostor; but it is easy to perceive, under his scornful jocularities, the traces of an uneasy respect.
From Eminent Victorians by Strachey, Giles Lytton
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The Scarlet Letter
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"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 10
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