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Meanings of jokey 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
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
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.
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 jokey in English
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.
6
You're the sign most likely to wish you could retract a jokey hint!
7
There's a jokey, boy's own quality to much of the commentary.
8
He had been approached to write books before, but always jokey high-concept books.
9
Far from being sinister, his mask is a jokey icon of festive citizenship.
10
There were only a few jokey fights with the assembled pack.
11
They had concluded that this was only one of his jokey gempman's ways.
12
Essentially this is Top Gear for food: a jokey, blokey exercise in excessive indulgence.
13
I presented it as jokey evidence that I was wired that way all along.
14
The Daily Telegraph admitted as much in its jokey story.
15
Photo: Lewis Eady Charitable Trust Schumann was in a jokey mood for these Novellettes.
16
The witch's demise features a jokey, back-from-the grave Carrie moment.
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Jokey through the time