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jovial
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Anna Karenina
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- At Sergey Ivanovitch's little pills, everyone laughed; Turovtsin in especial roared loudly and jovially, glad at last to have found something to laugh at, all he ever looked for in listening to conversation.†
Part 4jovially = cheerfully and friendly
- The Countess Lidia Ivanovna had, as a very young and sentimental girl, been married to a wealthy man of high rank, an extremely good-natured, jovial, and extremely dissipated rake.†
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- Spending the time with jovial gentlemen of Oblonsky's type—she knew now what that meant...it meant drinking and going somewhere after drinking.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(jovial) cheerful and friendly
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)