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UK
/dʒˈəʊvɪˈælɪti/
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NOUN
- a jovial nature
- feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor
How To Use joviality In A Sentence
- If red roses are arranged with yellow roses or blossoms contain both red and yellow coloration, they express gaiety, joviality and happiness.
- Their pleasures gave but a pinchbeck joviality after all, were but a thin lacker spread over mercenary cares and heart-aching jealousies -- not the jealousies of passion, but the nipping vulgar vexation with which a shopkeeper trembles lest a customer should go to his rival over the way. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)
- By profession a hotelkeeper, the elder Parer on all accounts had the shrewd joviality of his calling.
- By profession a hotelkeeper, the elder Parer on all accounts had the shrewd joviality of his calling.
- He is remembered for his joviality and zest for life and love of the game.
- A hyracotherium, or I miss my guess, " said Trizein with the forced joviality an adult often displayed for the unknown quantity of a youngster. Dinosaur Planet
- Their cheeks glowed, their eyes glared; they resembled Bacchantes circling the god of riotous joviality with their shouts of "Evoe! evoe! Henry VIII and His Court
- At the station the father, our dad, Mister Stanley by name, greeted us with hearty joviality, bussed my mother heartily and brushed our faces with hairy kisses to our cheeks.
- But this rather added to the general joviality, and the cake, which did taste extremely good, was quickly demolished.
- A hyracotherium, or I miss my guess," said Trizein with the forced joviality an adult often displayed for the unknown quantity of a youngster. Cattle Town