jocosity

Example Sentences

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Like most of the BBC's new breed, he is always on message, and avuncular to a fault, addicted to unnecessary jocosity – what we doctors call John Inverdale syndrome.

From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2012

Catholic is likely to get into, and they do it with frankness and not a little abrasive jocosity of their own.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite the period jocosity, Sam's spats of spite, the bad blood over bad debts, and all too many last words with forgotten men who wronged him, Mark Twain's mastery remains.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I’m afraid you miss the bran,” he went on with irrelevant jocosity to Jackson’s bride. 

From Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales by James, Henry

This was a jocosity if not a mockery, but it was the first time I had heard the words in Ireland.

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John