How To Use Jocosity In A Sentence
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He was an odd mixture of awkwardness and complacency, a desire to be courteous struggling with a desire to show his independence; he had no ease of manner, no bonhomie, but a gruff and ugly kind of jocosity, which I am sure was not really natural to him, but was his protest against the possibility of my considering him to be shy.
The Silent Isle
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Record of a Journey to the West is a tragic story written in the appearance of a comedy by the author and it is a jocosity depiction of survival consciousness.
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In this letter there is a tone of jocosity with reference to the victim, which filled me with horror.
The Commission in Lunacy
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His features were not naturally intended to wear a smiling aspect, but he was in general rather given to professional jocosity.
Oliver Twist
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It had, of course, no truth in it whatsoever, and I more than once confessed publicly that it was only a jocosity … Scarcely a month goes by that I do not find the substance of it reprinted, not as foolishness but as fact, and not only in newspapers but in official documents and other works of the highest pretensions.
August « 2008 « Isegoria
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I mean not the sad jocosity of P.O.M.216 passages or the mere callender of slaughter.
A Life in Letters
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Lewis Carroll's best parodies are pure poetry, but he was also capable of routine Victorian jocosity of producing a parody of Swinburne entitled (with a nod towards Atalanta in Calydon) 'Atalanta in Camden Town'.
'The Oxford Book of Parodies'
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Sununu himself was passing the whole thing off with heavy jocosity.
The 'Air Sununu' Flap
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Lewis Carroll's best parodies are pure poetry, but he was also capable of routine Victorian jocosity of producing a parody of Swinburne entitled (with a nod towards Atalanta in Calydon) 'Atalanta in Camden Town'.
'The Oxford Book of Parodies'