Playful and characterized by jokes.
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 .
6 But the former jocose tone was lacking and he appeared thoughtful.
7 Her course was arrested by a howl from the jocose youth.
8 The claret had made Mr. Soper not only sociable but jocose .
9 His native dialect he generally employed on jocose and familiar subjects.
10 His lyre shall be jocose , his plectrum of the lighter sort.
11 Philip was nervous, but tried to hide the fact by a jocose manner.
12 Valentine only laughed, as if he considered the question merely rhetorical or jocose .
13 Counsel was merciless and coarsely jocose , and brought off several laughs.
14 The time came and with it Sir John Bell, large, sharp-eyed, and jocose .
15 Mr. Gammon, whose countenance had fallen, turned to the mother with jocose remonstrance.
16 I have been asked why I employed a pleasant, jocose , and diverting style.
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