Meanings of jocular tone in English

The jocular tone made it clear the words were not a barb.

Noticing his jocular tone, Nana assumed her magnificently frigid demeanor and icily replied:

JJ's face darkened, yet his voice held the same jocular tone.

I asked Alex, in a rather jocular tone, who he thought that person was.

He walked to and fro, saying to himself in what seemed a jocular tone:

His jocular tone did not hide his deep earnestness.

But I could not find it in my heart to pursue this discussion in a jocular tone.

The jocular tone revealed an uncomfortable truth.

Although Anne spoke in a jocular tone when mentioning John, she blushed most bewitchingly at her acknowledgment.

Stephane was involuntarily moved, and strove in vain to conceal it by the jocular tone in which he replied:

My wife smiled, for her dislike of tobacco was well known, and she answered in the same jocular tone:

Come, now, I expect she writes poetry herself, doesn't she? she asked in a jocular tone, turning to William.

The professor confessed in a jocular tone his impatience to complete the circuit of the globe and be done with it.

Nothing was more amusing than to see him endeavouring to imitate the careless and jocular tone of the young men of fashion.

With a jocular tone that was sometimes humorous, sometimes defiant, Obama tried to show he had gotten his groove back despite recent political defeats.

The crews like a jolt when they get back." Then in a jocular tone: "I like a jolt, and I'm the boss."