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Meanings of jocose in English
Synonyms
Examples for "joking"
Examples for "joking"
1
And worrying. She is joking, but her words are also deadly serious.
2
There was a great deal of laughing and joking during the meal.
3
The children couldn't quite make out whether he was joking or not.
4
Stormgren had often found it difficult to tell when Karellen was joking.
5
Doctor Percival squeezed his arm and said, 'I was only joking, Davis.
1
She is jesting: I have it here; Monsieur, the feint is useless.
2
You know that I am not jesting; I mean what I say.
3
Somehow or other, I no longer felt in the mood for jesting.
4
You are only jesting, sir; I should be ashamed to take it.
5
Often of a morning Babbitt came bouncing and jesting in to breakfast.
1
The jocular tone made it clear the words were not a barb.
2
I saw through his jocular exterior in several ways after his diagnosis.
3
Ms Boaden argued: Most of their comments were jocular or light-hearted banter.
4
Harry is known primarily for inheriting the jocular racism of his grandfather.
5
The old genius was as jocular as the young one was pleasant.
1
I know that manufacturers often make claims about their products' jokey personifications.
2
The jaunty music appears to be pointing us in a jokey direction.
3
They had a tradition of writing each other jokey verse to celebrate.
4
Mike's face changed from being open and jokey to hardened and guarded.
5
Another faux pas: using the captions as a place to add jokey commentary.
1
Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad, is the Ocean, oh!
2
You're the kind of a lively, joky fellow I like.
3
Or that Uber has collated data from its customers' habits to calculate a joky tabulation of their one-night stands.
4
You have not heard me say a word about her dear loving mother and her big joky father, have you?
5
Osama bin Laden was a vaguely joky figure whom certain alarmists in the US intelligence community were taking seriously, but for no particular reason.
Usage of jocose in English
1
Fortunately, the Crows were in a jocose, rather than a sanguinary mood.
2
And also it offers people a chance to be jocose with facility.
3
He even, as time passed, became in a sardonic fashion almost jocose.
4
Indeed, one newspaper diarist wrote a jocose, rather knowing remark about it.
5
Surveying himself complacently in the glass, it pleased Mr. Toomey to be jocose.
6
But the former jocose tone was lacking and he appeared thoughtful.
7
Her course was arrested by a howl from the jocose youth.
8
The claret had made Mr. Soper not only sociable but jocose.
9
His native dialect he generally employed on jocose and familiar subjects.
10
His lyre shall be jocose, his plectrum of the lighter sort.
11
Philip was nervous, but tried to hide the fact by a jocose manner.
12
Valentine only laughed, as if he considered the question merely rhetorical or jocose.
13
Counsel was merciless and coarsely jocose, and brought off several laughs.
14
The time came and with it Sir John Bell, large, sharp-eyed, and jocose.
15
Mr. Gammon, whose countenance had fallen, turned to the mother with jocose remonstrance.
16
I have been asked why I employed a pleasant, jocose, and diverting style.
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