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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "jocularity" in a sentence

    jocularity example sentences

    jocularity


    1. There was no chatter in the aisles, no jocularity at the counter, not even a whisper


    2. 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 gives law its vitality


    3. “Hooly, hooly, friend,” quo’ I, with a laugh of jocularity, no illpleased to see to what effect I had worked upon him; “that will never do; ye’re but a greenhorn in public affairs


    4. The jocularity proper to an innocent card game for a few cigars or a bundle of yerba was replaced at once by the stern duty mood of an officer setting out to visit the outposts of an encamped army


    5. " Then Don Pepe, modestly martial in his chair, the llanero who seemed somehow to have found his martial jocularity, his knowledge of the world, and his manner perfect for his station, in the midst of savage armed contests with his kind; Avellanos, polished and familiar, the diplomatist with his loquacity covering much caution and wisdom in delicate advice, with his manuscript of a historical work on Costaguana, entitled "Fifty Years of Misrule," which, at present, he thought it was not prudent (even if it were possible) "to give to the world"; these three, and also Dona Emilia amongst them, gracious, small, and fairy-like, before the glittering tea-set, with one common master-thought in their heads, with one common feeling of a tense situation, with one ever-present aim to preserve the inviolable character of the mine at every cost


    6. “Don’t tell me you didn’t know I was to be your brother-in-law this spring,” he said with nervous jocularity


    7. Over the barton-gate the dairyman saw them, and came forward, throwing into his face the kind of jocularity deemed appropriate in Talbothays and its vicinity on the re-appearance of the newly-married


    8. de Beausset ventured with respectful jocularity to remark that there is no reason for not having lunch when one can get it


    9. When I entered at once into the closest direct relations with those forty tiny peasants that formed my school (I call them tiny peasants because I found in them the same characteristics of perspicacity, the same immense store of information from practical life, of jocularity, simplicity, and loathing for everything false, which distinguish the Russian peasant), when I saw that susceptibility, that readiness to acquire the information which they needed, I felt at once that the antiquated church method of instruction had outlived its usefulness and was not good for them


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    Synonyms for "jocularity"

    jest jocularity joke jocosity jocundity

    "jocularity" definitions

    a feeling facetious merriment


    fun characterized by humor


    activity characterized by good humor