jocosity
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Origin of jocosity
Example Sentences
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Like most of the BBC's new breed, he is always on message, and avuncular to a fault, addicted to unnecessary jocosity – what we doctors call John Inverdale syndrome.
From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2012
Despite the period jocosity, Sam's spats of spite, the bad blood over bad debts, and all too many last words with forgotten men who wronged him, Mark Twain's mastery remains.
From Time Magazine Archive
Catholic is likely to get into, and they do it with frankness and not a little abrasive jocosity of their own.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have to be so moral and so dignified nowadays that the jocosity of my nature will gush out when it gets a chance, and the consequences are, as you see, rubbish.
From Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals by Alcott, Louisa May
The term 'old boy' has, alas, declined upon the vernacular, and been put to base uses of jocosity, so it is a forbidden one.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas
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