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It seems churlish to begrudge any efforts to spread positivity – but his messages can smack of a jollying stranger telling you to smile.

The government has already passed a reform aimed at jollying the bankruptcy courts along.

He was everywhere at once, pushing, pulling, sawing, hammering, improvising, jollying everyone along with comradely exhortations and giving out from every fold of his body what seemed an inexhaustible supply of acrid-smelling sweat.

Dropping jollying, though, we narrow down to real service.

I'm sorry we told the mater that he was you, but the mater required jollying along, as I explained.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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