[ UK /d‍ʒˈɒlɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor
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How To Use jollity In A Sentence

  • Not that I'm denigrating the effort - I'm good for a few quid once I've got a few beers in me later tonight - but the enforced jollity does occasionally grate.
  • Yet it was easy to forget the ballet's dark scary heart amid the jollity of much of the staging. Times, Sunday Times
  • We slept soundly that night, in what was probably the best bedroom of the house, and awoke with a feeling that we were about to enter on a period of some uncommon kind of jollity, which we found to be true when we went down to get breakfast. Rudder Grange
  • All have that characteristic Milhaud lightness and playfulness, that jollity and occasional raucousness.
  • Whether you're the warm and fuzzy sort or you're like me, and find enforced jollity a serious downer, it's hard to avoid contemplating hearth and home and the ghosts of Christmas past at this time of year.
  • I finished what I was doing and went to join the jollity, sitting in a corner, smiling vacantly.
  • The day was spent in mirththe Lenni-Lenape nation and Jollity the soldiers paradingof the Delaware Valley marching with fife & Drum and Huzzaing as they passd the poles their hats adornd with white blossoms A Renegade History of the United States
  • Oh dear, terrible pun; but then this town is known for jollity. Times, Sunday Times
  • But his contrived jollity is driving me up the wall.
  • Part of the problem is the decision to make The Man with Red Eyes a jocular sort of villain; instead of becoming more sinister in his false jollity, however, he becomes less so.
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