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Definition of "jocularity" []

  • Joking, humorous remarks or behaviour. (noun)

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Use "jocularity" in a sentence
  • "Like Bush, his jocularity is a thin veil over a white hot temper, easily engaged when his will or knowledge is questioned."
  • "Among a giddy and light-minded people, they have appropriated to themselves the post of honour of pedantry: they confound the levity of jocularity, which is quite compatible with profundity in art, with the levity of shallowness, which (as a natural gift or natural defect,) is so frequent among their countrymen."
  • "I can't help but think they thought they were being funny or clever alas they missed the mark but look at what such "jocularity" inspires in others!"