Meanings of jocular remarks in English

Then the chairman rose, and with jocular remarks announced the first song.

The former again made jocular remarks about Bertha's visit to Vienna.

There was a boyish quality in him which kept him giving and taking jocular remarks.

I see plainly the drift of your jocular remarks, though you do not clearly express yourself.

The minutes dragged by to the accompaniment of various jocular remarks anent a fool and his money.

But such jocular remarks were never made to the father-in his presence Camille was subdued and suspiciously respectful.

What was the use of stirring up a scandal which would only have led to jocular remarks in the newspapers?

An awful stillness had fallen over the girl- afullrealization of the meaning of his jocular remarks was just dawning upon her.

Trust in John Whittingdale, the culture secretary, has not been bolstered by jocular remarks envisaging the BBC's demise as "a tempting prospect".

Jocular remarks were passed between the soldiery at the windows when the wistful groups gathered along the railway line.