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"Oops!" her father agreed jocularly. (source)jocularly = in a playful manner (characterized by jokes and good humor)
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His lips were often pressed together in a jocular grin, as if all the world were his to laugh at.† (source)
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Many jocular comments followed, as did another onslaught of "heil Hitlering."† (source)
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Nonetheless he was offensively jocular.† (source)
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Jocular shrug.† (source)
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Mr. Adler was making a jocular reference to an article in the morning paper announcing that he and his wife would be traveling to Washington at the end of the week to meet Prince Charles of England.† (source)
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Among the older members of the congregation—with whom the jocular Captain Wiggin and his brash wife were not an overnight success—there was a stewing anger, apparent in their frowns and scowls, as if the shameful pageant they had just witnessed were the rector's idea of something "modern."† (source)
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The closer they were to action, the more jocularity bothered him.† (source)
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He had not dared to return to the Room of Requirement to retrieve his book, and his performance in Potions was suffering accordingly (though Slughorn, who approved of Ginny, had jocularly attributed this to Harry being lovesick).† (source)
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You're rude, jocular; and the one time you do something serious, it tears at the fabric of our nation.† (source)
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"Certainly," he said with a jocularity that I saw as false but was probably convincing for the others.† (source)
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Remember," the announcer added jocularly, "that's how the Donners got into trouble.† (source)
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On the second day his mother called the police, who had remained noncommittal and jocular, until his father's briefcase was found in the cloakroom of the museum in Pittsburgh, his suitcase and camera in his hotel.† (source)
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Mary is delighted at her husband's sudden jocularity and his ability to seemingly leave the burdens of the White House behind the instant they leave the grounds.† (source)
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I don't want to mess with it," Nathaniel says jocularly.† (source)
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His demeanor was friendly, almost jocular, as he approached.† (source)
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