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Meanings of jocular manner in English

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Usage of jocular manner in English
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For all Morey's jocular manner, he realized the terrible import of this announcement.
Invaders from the Infinite
2
Pike uttered the words in a jocular manner, but the old man felt deeply offended.
Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigands of Greece
3
Mrs. Farrington was surprised at her husband's jocular manner when he was called to dinner.
The Fourth Watch
4
I rushed in, set my carpet-bag down, and laying off my hat, said in a jocular manner:
Twenty Years of Hus'ling
5
They were sitting together one day shortly after this, when Bucholz, in a jocular manner, addressing his companion, said:
Bucholz and the Detectives
6
Recovering his jocular manner.
A Man and His Money
7
Instead of being angry, he seemed to be unusually gay, and looked at them in quite a jocular manner for a dry-as-dust scientist.
The Green Mummy
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While the stranger was giving this account of the Two Admirals, in a half-serious, half- jocular manner, the eyes of his companions were on him.
The Two Admirals
9
When he spoke to Lawrence, he in his usual jocular manner exclaimed: Ah, so now you are to have Kaffee Klatsch with the Princess.
L.P.M. : The End of the Great War
10
John Murray sounded genuinely moved by the news, to the extent that he even toned down his perennially jocular manner by a couple of notches.
The Irish Times
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'So I see,' exclaimed Mrs Verden, tossing her head in a peculiar jocular manner.
The Trespasser
12
"Come on," she said, attempting a jocular manner that she hoped masked her anxiety, "who is it?"
The Hellbound Heart
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