The trait of merry joking.
Fun characterized by humor.
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Examples for "merriness "
Examples for "merriness "
1 The merriness in his eyes was always there, even when he wept.
2 It was never merriness which made eyes sparkle that way.
3 He loved her for her merriness , for her open sunniness.
4 It was made out of merriness , sunshine, and dew.
5 Ingigerd portrayed this with inimitable grace, innocence and merriness .
1 A tone of pride and glee, and, occasionally, of bantering jocoseness , is discernible.
2 He said it with as much jocoseness as civility allowed, then at once rose.
3 Anything like the jocoseness of Mr. Guppy's mother just now, I think I never saw.
4 It was Mr. Mawmsey's friendly jocoseness in questioning him which had set the tone of Lydgate's reply.
5 Under all the big man's apparent fierceness there had been a flash of rough jocoseness in his tones at times.
1 She had a keen appreciation of the humorousness and quaintness of children.
2 A warm-hearted, emotional girl was Lady Mabella, who laughed at the humorousness of being alive.
3 Some of his short stories are marvellous but many read like five-finger exercises, often aiming at a humorousness that hasn't aged well.
4 When he opened the newspapers and found the advertisements of the flats, she saw the engaging, half-awkward humorousness come into his eyes.
5 Though now thirty-five years old, he had not lost the humorousness which had procured for him the sobriquet of "Laughing Tam."
1 It contained the usual assortment of conventional praise and vulgar jocosity : -
2 Isn't the thing he lacks the back-slapping jocosity that passes for humor here?
3 The jocosity exemption might cover some of the lies, but surely not all.
4 From some of his observations we might think he was altogether averse from jocosity .
5 Mr. Birch turned to her with confidential jocosity .
6 Thorne did not respond to this jocosity .
7 She sang, and joked, and danced, and played, with an excess of jocosity that jarred him painfully.
8 At that there was a great laughter, and much jocosity from the cock-lairds at their friend's expense.
9 In this letter there is a tone of jocosity with reference to the victim, which filled me with horror.
10 All along he inferred that she understood him, and accepted his veneer of jocosity and insincerity at its true value.
11 Mr. Wentworth's jocosity increased.
12 Was not she by her foolish falsification- apieceof mild jocosity , no doubt-theprime author of all the evil that had followed?
13 There those who had only known him in his professional capacity were surprised to find him displaying the tenderness and jocosity of a parent.
14 The term 'old boy' has, alas, declined upon the vernacular, and been put to base uses of jocosity , so it is a forbidden one.
15 The Basset boy tried to fix his strained attention upon anything rather than upon that tone of high jocosity between Hetty and the shiny-haired clerk.
16 Shrank or eliciting ponderous jocosities from the other workers.
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