jocosely

ADVERB
  1. with humor
    they tried to deal with this painful subject jocularly
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How To Use jocosely In A Sentence

  • At last he suffered vows to be put up for his good journey and safe return, insomuch that he was called jocosely by the name of Callipides, who is famous in a Greek proverb, for being in a great hurry to go forward, but without ever advancing a cubit. De vita Caesarum
  • One hand, between the pickets, seemed waving at her, and almost he seemed to wink at her jocosely, though she knew it to be the contortion of deadly pain. CHAPTER IX
  • It is very “filling”: you say jocosely to an Eastern threatened with a sudden inroad of guests, “Go, swamp thy rice with Raughan.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • It would have been impossible to hear any explanation; but the five minutes were over, and the horns had ceased, and there remained only the noise of a singular leaping of feet, explained perhaps by a possible pillow-fight, that kept the family below partially awake until the bells and cannon made known the dawning of the glorious day, – the sunrise, or "the rising of the sons," as Mr. Peterkin jocosely called it when they heard the little boys and their friends clattering down the stairs to begin the outside festivities. The Peterkin Papers
  • The hotel servants chuckled as he went in and out; the oystermen and wood-cutters called jocosely to each other as he passed by; respectable people said he could have no consideration for his wife to degrade her by raising the derision of the town. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
  • jocosely" reminded by smiling secretaries that the competition was over, and that those who were dissatisfied with the companies 'supplies were quite at liberty to set up pumps of their own. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 447 Volume 18, New Series, July 24, 1852
  • You must not overwork at your editorial desk, my boy," he called jocosely from the distant threshold. Paul and the Printing Press
  • The world-sickness of the White Logic makes one grin jocosely into the face of the Noseless One and to sneer at all the phantasmagoria of living. Chapter XXXVI
  • One hand, between the pickets, seemed waving at her, and almost he seemed to wink at her jocosely, though she knew it to be the contortion of deadly pain. CHAPTER IX
  • Inn, and to bestow a mutchkin, as he would jocosely say, to obtain the freedom of the house, but, in reality, to assure himself of my company during the evening. — Old Mortality
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