jocularly

He jocularly pardoned a couple of Thanksgiving turkeys on the White House lawn.

Nepa, the acronym for the Nigerian Electricity Power Authority, soon became known jocularly as "Never Expect Power Always".

Taken together, the emails provide an unvarnished look into the clubby culture of one N.F.L. circle of peers, where white male decision makers felt comfortable sharing pornographic images, deriding the league policies, and jocularly sharing homophobic language.

One comprises a mini-crown of semi-sonnets; another compares, jocularly and then with righteous anger, persecuted Black Americans to “chihuahuas,” who “bark cause that’s what they supposed to do.”

If companies are going to trade beyond Scandinavia and a few other countries — “possibly New Zealand and Australia and Canada,” Sherard Cowper-Coles jocularly told the Wall Street Journal last week — then they will have to operate where human rights conditions are “less than ideal.”