Sample Sentences forjocular (auto-selected)
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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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Simon can't tell whether or not he intends to be jocular.† (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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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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The closer they were to action, the more jocularity bothered him.† (source)
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Remember," the announcer added jocularly, "that's how the Donners got into trouble.† (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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All such professors of the several branches of jocularity would have been sternly repressed, not only by the rigid discipline of law, but by the general sentiment which give law its vitality.† (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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After we exchanged pleasantries, he spoke briefly with Martin Adams and Anatoli Boukreev, who were standing just above Harris through his oxygen mask, trying to affect a jocular tone and me, waiting to descend the Step.† (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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But I beat the thing down; and again marking the sleeper, jocularly hinted to Queequeg that perhaps we had best sit up with the body; telling him to establish himself accordingly.† (source)
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But even if Matt understood this, he could not place it in the jocular context of broad bombhead sport.† (source)
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