Synonyms
Examples for "jocosity"
Examples for "jocosity"
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It contained the usual assortment of conventional praise and vulgar jocosity:-
2
Isn't the thing he lacks the back-slapping jocosity that passes for humor here?
3
The jocosity exemption might cover some of the lies, but surely not all.
4
From some of his observations we might think he was altogether averse from jocosity.
5
Mr. Birch turned to her with confidential jocosity.
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The merriness in his eyes was always there, even when he wept.
2
It was never merriness which made eyes sparkle that way.
3
He loved her for her merriness, for her open sunniness.
4
It was made out of merriness, sunshine, and dew.
5
Ingigerd portrayed this with inimitable grace, innocence and merriness.
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A tone of pride and glee, and, occasionally, of bantering jocoseness, is discernible.
2
He said it with as much jocoseness as civility allowed, then at once rose.
3
Anything like the jocoseness of Mr. Guppy's mother just now, I think I never saw.
4
It was Mr. Mawmsey's friendly jocoseness in questioning him which had set the tone of Lydgate's reply.
5
Under all the big man's apparent fierceness there had been a flash of rough jocoseness in his tones at times.
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She had a keen appreciation of the humorousness and quaintness of children.
2
A warm-hearted, emotional girl was Lady Mabella, who laughed at the humorousness of being alive.
3
Some of his short stories are marvellous but many read like five-finger exercises, often aiming at a humorousness that hasn't aged well.
4
When he opened the newspapers and found the advertisements of the flats, she saw the engaging, half-awkward humorousness come into his eyes.
5
Though now thirty-five years old, he had not lost the humorousness which had procured for him the sobriquet of "Laughing Tam."
6
He had a quiet humorousness of disposition, not out of keeping with a frequent melancholy, the general expression of his countenance being one of abstraction.
7
'I must bear it all as best I can, I suppose,' said De Stancy, with melancholy humorousness.
8
"But," he said, wagging his head with a grave humorousness, "your lordship needs not to ride a-courting.
9
'Well, no harm has been done,' he answered, with the same subdued and tender humorousness that he had shown on such occasions in early life.