Sample Sentences for
jovial
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    He was a round-faced, jovial man and he ran the coal business, and people were sorry for him, because he had no children and his wife was a scold.  (source)
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    "All about Africa and everything," said the father with false joviality.  (source)
    joviality = cheerfulness
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    "Hello, Wilson, old man," said Tom, slapping him jovially on the shoulder.  (source)
    jovially = cheerfully and friendly
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    With this, she put a jovial arm around my neck.  (source)
    jovial = friendly and cheerful
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    Uncle Vernon now came in, smiling jovially as he shut the door.†  (source)
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    The man's voice held a kind of forced joviality to it.†  (source)
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    A burst of jovial, tittering laughter split through the awkwardness.†  (source)
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    "I like your costume," he said jovially.†  (source)
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    "Mr. Galt!" cried the leader with the sound of an enormous joviality.†  (source)
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    AS THEY WALK TO AUSCHWITZ, BARETSKI SEEMS IN A JOVIAL mood and peppers Lale with questions.†  (source)
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    He wanders around the crowded room, tasting hors d'oeuvres, sipping wine, looking jovially bewildered, and occasionally Pari has to swoop in and steal him away from a group of mathematicians before he opines on 3-manifolds and Diophantine approximations.†  (source)
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    "It's Kim!" she said with forced joviality.†  (source)
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    "I've got my girls to keep me company" my dad says, trying to sound jovial and not tense.†  (source)
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