jolly

In written evidence to the inquest, Hayley Senior, Miss Senior's mother, had told the hearing her daughter had grown up as “a happy, sassy and really jolly girl”.

But the jolly tone gives way to something fiercer and more appropriately epic: a galloping rhythm on the drums, insistent bass and scorching guitar notes.

The Scottish Conservatives accused him of having a "jolly to watch the football" at taxpayers' expense.

The parade winds up with an appearance by the jolly old elf, Santa Claus, and his reindeer.

Elected on 4 July, packed off to their own constituencies on 30 July, all those nice constituents who said they were going to vote for them now seem jolly cross.