All 7 Uses of
jocular
in
Bleak House
- Richard, begging me, for the greater grace of the transaction, as he said, to settle with Coavinses (as Mr. Skimpole now jocularly called him), I counted out the money and received the necessary acknowledgment.†
Chpt 4-6
- Whether Young Smallweed (metaphorically called Small and eke Chick Weed, as it were jocularly to express a fledgling) was ever a boy is much doubted in Lincoln's Inn.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- There is an ogreish kind of jocularity in Grandfather Smallweed to-day.†
Chpt 34-36
- "I am afraid everybody is obliged to be," said I timidly enough, he being so much older and more clever than I. "No, really?" said Mr. Skimpole, receiving this new light with a most agreeable jocularity of surprise.†
Chpt 37-39
- It would be contradictory for one in mademoiselle's state of agreeable jocularity to foam at the mouth, otherwise a tigerish expansion thereabouts might look as if a very little more would make her do it.†
Chpt 40-42
- "What do Sir Leicester care for that, you think, my angel?" returns mademoiselle in a jocular strain.†
Chpt 52-54
- I was quite unprepared for the rapid manner in which Mrs. Guppy's power of jocularity merged into a power of taking the profoundest offence.†
Chpt 64-65
Definition:
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(jocular) characterized by jokes and good humor