Meanings of jocoseness in English

A tone of pride and glee, and, occasionally, of bantering jocoseness, is discernible.

He said it with as much jocoseness as civility allowed, then at once rose.

Anything like the jocoseness of Mr. Guppy's mother just now, I think I never saw.

It was Mr. Mawmsey's friendly jocoseness in questioning him which had set the tone of Lydgate's reply.

Under all the big man's apparent fierceness there had been a flash of rough jocoseness in his tones at times.

Rough jocoseness, diffusiveness, local prejudice, a life spent on details, a lack of philosophy.-theseare faults, but they are British faults, Anglo-Saxonfaults.

There was just a bit of a drawl in her voice, a suggestion of jocoseness, continual appreciation of the humor of life and living.

'Bess,' cried Samuel, with an affected jocoseness, 'you're called upon to apologise.

"I have been giving you the opinion of the higher court," he said, with his nearest approach to jocoseness.

"I cal'late we didn't get out any too soon, Miss Carvel," he remarked, with a sad attempt at jocoseness.

"Don't you approve of a wife burning incense before her husband?" said Sir Hugo, with an air of jocoseness.

A tone of pride and glee, and, occasionally, of bantering jocoseness, is discernible.

He said it with as much jocoseness as civility allowed, then at once rose.

Anything like the jocoseness of Mr. Guppy's mother just now, I think I never saw.

It was Mr. Mawmsey's friendly jocoseness in questioning him which had set the tone of Lydgate's reply.

Under all the big man's apparent fierceness there had been a flash of rough jocoseness in his tones at times.