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Meanings of joviality in English
Portuguese
alegria Catalan
jovialitat Catalan
jovialitat Usage of joviality in English
1
The long day's march has tempered the joviality of the entire column.
2
They looked, and saw him in huge white shirt-sleeves, shaking with joviality.
3
I did not take to Captain Barlow, for all his affected joviality.
4
This remark sobered the father's joviality, and brought his mind to business.
5
Miss Gloria Farrow, Registered Nurse, did not respond to my awkward joviality.
6
Mr Power turned to Mrs Kernan and said with abrupt joviality:
7
I had not experienced joviality, even vicariously, in longer than I could remember.
8
When the latter has departed, the joviality of the company increases.
9
Now all trace of joviality had vanished; he was dead serious.
10
It is used as an alternative for joviality, mirth and merriment.
11
But her joviality, Fred felt, was an asset, and ought to be developed.
12
The sourness of my own discontent was dissolved in the alembic of his joviality.
13
Ryan's early morning joviality had flown, replaced by stark seriousness.
14
In a show of good fellowship, he would join them, feigning relaxation and joviality.
15
On the whole there reigned a spirit of imbecile joviality.
16
M. Carbon was the embodiment of kindness, joviality and straightforwardness.
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