jocularity
Example Sentences
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Still, Kimmel seems to relish the juxtaposition of his unpretentious jocularity and the Oscars’ pomp and circumstance.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2024
His attempts at jocularity had been thoughtless and misguided but not malevolent, his lawyer said, in a submission to the panel.
From BBC • Jan. 19, 2023
Gleeful, as defined in the dictionary, suggests a sense of merriment, jocularity.
From Washington Post • Jul. 4, 2022
“Miz Martha Washington” bears the signature of Ijames’s clever wit: He writes the slaves as more than docile stereotypes; these slaves have personality to spare, and they joke and sing with a threatening jocularity.
From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2021
And then again, there was something painfully familiar in the menace and male jocularity of that tape.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Vocabulary lists containing jocularity
The Scarlet Letter
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"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 10
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