jovial

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  • Nugent is described as a jovial voluptuary, who left the Roman Catholic for the Protestant religion, with a view to bettering his fortunes; he had an Irishman's inclination for rich widows, and an Irishman's luck with the sex; having been thrice married and gained a fortune with each wife. —  Oliver Goldsmith
  • "You don't appear to be mourning his loss," Ariakas said, eyeing Kitiara. —  Dragons of Spring Dawning
  • On the telephone he came across as a slightly jovial, avuncular individual, even fatherly at a pinch. —  Bottled Spider
  • He was being falsely jovial, and they all knew it, but it gave the women a chance to sit back and listen to him as he rattled on about the surface work. —  Across The Sea Of Suns
  • It wasn't like the jovial, furry manipulators of time and space to be deliberately obscure. —  Flinx's Folly
 

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  1. French, probably from Italian giovale, from Old Italian, of Jupiter (regarded as the source of happiness), from Late Latin Ioviālis, from Latin Iuppiter, Iov-, Jupiter; see dyeu- in Indo-European roots.

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/ (jōˈvē-əl)/
ahd pronounces "jovial"
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