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  • "All about Africa and everything," said the father with false joviality.  (source)
    joviality = cheerfulness
  • Three women come strolling along the bank. ... Although the water is cold we are very jovial and do our best to interest them so that they will stay.  (source)
    jovial = cheerful and friendly
  • 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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  • AS THEY WALK TO AUSCHWITZ, BARETSKI SEEMS IN A JOVIAL mood and peppers Lale with questions.†  (source)
  • "Hello, Wilson, old man," said Tom, slapping him jovially on the shoulder.  (source)
    jovially = cheerfully and friendly
  • The man's voice held a kind of forced joviality to it.†  (source)
    joviality = cheerfulness and friendliness
  • "I've got my girls to keep me company" my dad says, trying to sound jovial and not tense.†  (source)
  • Harry started to speak but he was cut short as Lockhart flung an arm around his shoulders and thundered jovially, "Shouldn't have asked!†  (source)
    jovially = cheerfully and friendly
  • Trueba could not understand how his daughter had so many admirers, for she had none of the disarming gaiety and joviality he liked in women; besides, he felt that no normal man could want to marry a woman of ill health and uncertain civil status who already had a daughter.†  (source)
    joviality = cheerfulness and friendliness
  • Watching this jovial group, I found myself overcome with sadness.†  (source)
  • "I like your costume," he said jovially.†  (source)
    jovially = cheerfully and friendly
  • The discovery of his daughter restored his former joviality and the pleasure of being with her was slowly leading him away from dissipation.†  (source)
    joviality = cheerfulness and friendliness
  • A smart, jovial ex—football player and prelaw student, built like a side of beef, Cuppernell got along with everyone, dispensing wisecracks through teeth clenched around a gnawed-up cigar.†  (source)
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