Both Uses of
jovial
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- and her husband, a red-cheeked, white-whiskered creature who, like so many of his class, was under the impression that inordinate joviality can atone for an entire lack of ideas.†
Chpt 15joviality = cheerfulness and friendliness
- The inherited stupidity of the race—sound English common sense he jovially termed it—was shown to be the proper bulwark for Society.†
Chpt 15 *jovially = cheerfully and friendly
Definition:
cheerful and friendly