“Is the EIF by definition a festival exclusively for high-minded pursuits where jollity has no place?”

“So it was nice to be invited to the jollity and gaiety of a wedding for once instead of being summonsed to a cremation.”

“Although Rowan and Stephen joined in with the jollity of the occasion, grumpy Phil didn't really socialise.”

“The wooden floor is buffed to a cherry-red shine that lends a little jolliness.”

“The air inside the pub was dense and suffocating, thick with sweat and laughter, jolliness engulfing and eating away at everything in the room.”

“I wanted to ask Mr. Scott since he's always so jolly and happy that if people see him with his jolliness.”

“Nor would you consider it an occasion for especial jollification the day you erected the scantlings around the first floor joists.”

“In the flesh, we've gotten far closer to the jollification with which Santa is frequently associated.”

“As an unabashed keeper of the Feast of Christmas, I choose to rub shoulders with the forces of jollification, merriment, and solemnity.”

“To be honest, it is mainly because of the trolls who get their jollies by flaming other people's opinions.”

“The next day, people of all ages go into the streets for jollifications and paint-throwing.”

“If we think about it, Mrs Woodcourt must be wretched as she remains, in solitude, at the southern Bleak House, thinking about the jollifications in Yorkshire.”

“Professor Hawking clearly weighed the evidence and made a decision not to be part of the presidential jollifications.”

“Even the jollities of the festival at the Apollo Saloon could not commence till a blessing had been asked.”

“His Jorrocks Jaunts and jollities is missing from this catalogue, but here are a lot of them.”

“The songs they sang were traditional and tied in with pre-Victorian mid-winter celebrations where the Lord of Misrule presided over jollities which were rather wild at heart.”