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Meanings of jovial in anglès

Full of or showing high-spirited merriment.

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Usage of jovial in anglès
1
Hours later, the common room had a warm, jovial feel to it.
The Name of the Wind
2
The abuse in the Dunciad is by comparison broad and even jovial.
Alexander Pope
3
Then an Hour or two in the Library with the jovial Macaulay.
People You Know
4
It sets a marker for the service throughout: engaging, jovial and attentive.
Independent.ie
5
The Royal Particular was pressed upon me, by the now jovial Donjalolo.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I
6
For there was in the timbre of it a brutal, jovial triumph.
Steve Yeager
7
He even disapproved of the jovial horn-andthe settlement questioned his sincerity.
The Frontiersmen
8
His cheeks suffused with the most jovial red I have ever seen.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 19, 1917
9
But the feeling produced on the company was solemn rather than jovial.
The Duke's Children
10
His yellow teeth gleamed in their blue gums with a jovial welcome.
The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
11
She always looked different to me, she was friendlier and more jovial.
The kiss
12
But all the while my healthy, jovial, handsome host remained in bed.
The Drama of the Forests: Romance and Adventure
13
There was one jovial old boy of 60 with rows of ribbons.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915
14
He was in fear, and his jovial manner was a ghastly pretence.
The Sleuth of St. James's Square
15
Deering stood facing the jovial scoundrel, his hands leaning on the table.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks / Book Number Fifteen...
16
The performers were surprised to find him unnaturally sober and quite jovial.
The Rose in the Ring
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United Kingdom
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