How To Use Jocularity In A Sentence
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a phrenesiac or lethargic patient, you would wonder where he hath sae suddenly acquired all this fine sprack festivity and jocularity. '
Waverley — Complete
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If I had kissed her indeed (I thought), perhaps she would have taken it pretty well; and only because it had been written down, and with a spice of jocularity, up she must fuff in this ridiculous passion.
David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
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If your Royal Highness had seen him dreaming and dozing about the banks of Tully-Veolan like an hypochondriac person, or, as Burton's ANATOMIA hath it, a phrenesiac or lethargic patient, you would wonder where he hath sae suddenly acquired all this fine sprack festivity and jocularity.
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
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Enough jocularity, or what passes for it from a Wall Street Journal scrivener.
Waking Up to Greece's Default Position
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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.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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His voice was completely at odds with the content of what he had just said, light to the point of jocularity.
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But despite his forced jocularity, desultory attempts at humour, and spurts of nervous energy, Obree is a husk of heroism past.
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It comprises every possible display of jocularity, from an affettuoso smile to a piano titter, or full chorus fortissimo ha, ha, ha!
The Contrast
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Most of it, I learned in college. But, college never really did teach the fact that having a sense of humor in the workplace is different than ' jocularity .
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(There is an ogreish kind of jocularity in Grandfather
Bleak House
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(There is an ogreish kind of jocularity in Grandfather Smallweed to-day.) "And you can refuse, you mean, eh?
Bleak House
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Then, all in a moment, her face darkened with a mirthless glare as though there had been no jocularity to begin with.
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Like Bush, his jocularity is a thin veil over a white hot temper, easily engaged when his will or knowledge is questioned.
McCain: I Can Demagogue About Iran Because Public Is Ignorant
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I mean, assuming the "New Yorker Cartoon Law of Biting Satire", which states that the jocularity of a particular pasquinade is directly proportional to the abstruseness of the language in which you couch it, it was hilarious.
JERRY BRUCKHEIMER’S LAWS OF SCIENCE
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Franco released him from his embrace, tapped him on the chest and dropped his tone of ghastly jocularity.
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Bartending is about banter and jocularity, but it is also often about maintaining a cautious eye, and to some extent, babysitting.
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I can't help but think they thought they were being funny or clever alas they missed the mark but look at what such "jocularity" inspires in others!
Delagar
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'Fun' is a word much associated with him, yet for all the flamboyance and jocularity, you sense he is not into fame for a laugh.
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The jocularity soon gave way to ‘the bad omen theory’.
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He tried to smile at her forced jocularity; but the hunted expression saddened his eyes again.
From the Valley of the Missing
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But it did seem to me at a time when there's some very sober news around the world, especially in the Middle East, this kind of jocularity and sort of towel snapping with reporters did seem odd.
CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2006
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If your Royal Highness had seen him dreaming and dozing about the banks of Tully-Veolan like an hypochondriac person, or, as Burton's "Anatomia" hath it, a phrenesiac or lethargic patient, you would wonder where he hath sae suddenly acquired all this fine sprack festivity and jocularity. '
Waverley
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But I think some decent and sincere people on the Right misunderstand the jocularity around here for a lack of sincerity.
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Burton's Anatomia hath it, a phrenesiac or lethargic patient, you would wonder where he hath sae suddenly acquired all this fine sprack festivity and jocularity.
The Waverley
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I noted early on Jeffress often has a kind of impish jocularity with a William H. Macy face.
Pachacutec: Patrick Fitzgerald's Closing Argument
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Among a giddy and light-minded people, they have appropriated to themselves the post of honour of pedantry: they confound the levity of jocularity, which is quite compatible with profundity in art, with the levity of shallowness, which (as a natural gift or natural defect,) is so frequent among their countrymen.
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
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If your Royal Highness had seen him dreaming and dozing about the banks of Tully-Veolan like an hypochondriac person, or, as Burton's ANATOMIA hath it, a phrenesiac or lethargic patient, you would wonder where he hath sae suddenly acquired all this fine sprack festivity and jocularity.
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
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I mean, assuming the "New Yorker Cartoon Law of Biting Satire", which states that the jocularity of a particular pasquinade is directly proportional to the abstruseness of the language in which you couch it, it was hilarious.
JERRY BRUCKHEIMER’S LAWS OF SCIENCE
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Plus, a nickname implies jocularity, popularity, a certain friendliness and charm.
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Burton's Anatomia hath it, a phrenesiac or lethargic patient, you would wonder where he hath sae suddenly acquired all this fine sprack festivity and jocularity.
The Waverley
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Thin reasoning perhaps, but the bassoon and double bass duet in the "Menuet" has an earthy Balkan jocularity and the whole work is vigorously charming.
Brad Hill: Salonen Brings Hungarian Echoes to the NY Philharmonic
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Suiting the action to the word, he thrust her rather suddenly and prematurely into a chair, and designing to reassure her by a little harmless jocularity, such as is adapted to please and fascinate the sex, converted his right forefinger into an ideal bradawl or gimlet, and made as though he would screw the same into her side — whereat Miss Miggs shrieked again, and evinced symptoms of faintness.
Barnaby Rudge
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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.