jocularity

• But now Gleason was no longer capable of jocularity, and Carstairs' expression was as grim as death. —  June, 1943
• He turned to the rest of the company and realized too late that jocularity was the least he had to fear. —  The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh
• “Your train will wait.” It was said with belligerent jocularity, and Campion understood how ill at ease he was. —  Coroner's Pidgin - Margery Allingham - Campion 12: 1945
• Merriment and jocularity, a little tide-wave of social excitement, swelled and broke on all sides of me; making a soft ripply play of fun and repartee, difficult to describe, and which touched me as much as it amused. —  Daisy
• Romaine would have been quite unfitted for the work which Grimshaw and Berridge, in spite--or, shall we say, in consequence?--of their boisterous bonhomie and occasionally ill-timed jocularity were able to do. —  The English Church in the Eighteenth Century

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