jollity

Still, there is profit and occasional jollity in brisk recapitulations of seminal events by a fluent storyteller with an eye for telling detail and apposite quotation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025

As the Lib Dems gather in Bournemouth this weekend for their annual get together, there will be a certain amount of understandable jollity.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2025

Around the time of February’s Grammy Awards, Shaboozey appeared to have tired — reasonably! — of “Tipsy’s” rootsy jollity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2025

“Yeah, I’ll give you a sticker for free,” Massry says, with the forced jollity of a bartender at 2 a.m.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2024

With all her jollity, Vivian Baxter had no mercy.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

Stan's last surviving relative became coy and refused to enter into the jollities.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2011

A great outpouring of grief and anger and sorrow and doubt had to take place before the certainties and jollities of the mature writer could come into being.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 6, 2005

Pranks and jollities slide from gentle flippancy to hurly-burly burlesque.

From Time Magazine Archive

We wrote merry verse, bringing in the college jollities, in wanton student-fashion, and the good-natured old don who was our tutor affected to be pleased with our work.

From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton

Little Lucy was to lead the Christmas night jollities, and only the Santa Claus himself knew what would follow the wave of the long Chinese wand which she carried.

From Little Sky-High The Surprising Doings of Washee-Washee-Wang by Hezekiah Butterworth