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How to use jocular in a sentence

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July is one of the most popular jocund, jocose, and jocular months of the year.
This incident encapsulated the nature of the jocular Scotsman's influential ministry.
Early native Italian jocular dialogue in Latin verse are known as Fescennine verses.
It takes talent to transform a joke into a jocular jewel and the cast of the Mad Mission movies succeeds time and time again.
They show no signs of mistreatment and even have a jocular relationship with the two guards.
While jocular and jovial most of the time, these two titans can grow a bit wearisome with their constant credit taking.
Dublin had just demolished Donegal and he was in particularly jocular mood.
Harmless jokes or jocular winking at the workplace can lead to activation of such guidelines.
A relaxed Mr Kennedy did not sparkle, but remained jocular as he parried friendly questions.
It is customary in the north of Ireland to refer, in a jocular way, to water as Adam's ale.
Witty and polished, the film takes a jocular view of the characters and their failings but doesn't judge events.
Like previous national meetings, the NAS conference proceeded in a mostly serious, yet occasionally jocular mood.
Kevin will best be remembered as an obliging and jocular butcher who ran the family business at 82 Main Street for 65 years.
A jocular sort, but with a heart as empty as a pig trough waiting for slops.
Jack was blessed with a sunny, jocular disposition and was never rushed, making time for everyone.
A jocular Englishman, Terry has been in New Zealand for 12 years, organising tours of the best dive spots for visiting Poms.
And the president's habit of roughing people up with jocular derision doesn't work as well when the trappings of power aren't all around him.
The discussion was fast paced and jocular, with nearly all of the jokes at the expense of IMX's desperate competitors.
He had a jocular way of telling his point of view and that often had the Senate in stitches.
For one significant reason, the jocular Thomson can afford not to be too downbeat about the Fifers' 8-1 mauling on their own patch last month.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Babson was less jocular with Una than with the bouncing girls who were natives of Harlem.
Hood, on the other hand, is jocular in an airier and lighter-hearted fashion.
But I could not find it in my heart to pursue this discussion in a jocular tone.
We were talking in the Gaelic, and he made a jocular remark there is no English for.
For the sake of decency, the mere mentioning of this filthy, obscenely jocular, and blasphemous publication must suffice.
The Monk did not fall into the jocular trap by retorting in the same strain.
Mr. McLean, as stout and humoursome as of yore, had solemnly promised his wife to be jocular but not too jocular.
Larissa repeated her drolly jocular request, adding that Isis was the name of a terrorist organisation.
Kearns was coolly dispassionate and noncommittal, while Elam Harnish appeared as quizzical and jocular as ever.
Babcock's birthplace, and, for reasons too recondite to unfold, his visit there always assumed in his mind a jocular cast.
When he had found his leaflet, and offered a few jocular hints upon keeping papers in order, the typewriting would stop abruptly, and Mrs.
Their industry goes so far, that jocular reports of its excess are spread.
Brandes rose with an air almost jocular and smote stull upon the back.
She did it gloomily until she came to ten, but when she got into two figures she became more hopeful, and, as the time advanced, even jocular.
I was afraid he would ask me to give him the berth in some ghastly jocular hint that I could not refuse to take.
To whom this honourable and jocular, member fraternally said one day, 'Jem, there's a good opening among the hard Fact fellows, and they want men.
Another would be jocular in tone, slapping you on the back, so to speak.
She had the trick of firing off Solomon's utterances also upon strangers, astonishing them easily by the unfamiliar text and the unexpectedly jocular vein of these quotations.
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