jocular

But his jocular manner put many of them at ease, he said.

That jocular sympathy expressed by patients is illustrative: The digital rectal exam just plain makes men nervous.

He had the jocular demeanor of a college tour guide, an energy I hadn’t expected.

McDougal was eventually paid $150,000 and promised other perks, a deal hashed out in sometimes jocular terms.

One afternoon during the group’s early days, Eddie Midnight, the jocular brother of a friend, shouted out to White, calling him by the nickname he hated: “Hey, Skins! You got a minute? I found something good for ya.”