jovial

• “When I go to a doctor or other medical professional, I'm not interested in "jovial and informal" because it is NOT A SOCIAL CALL.”

  Quick Hit: Beware the Willy Bits - Feministing

• “He was described as "jovial" and "down to earth," a good communicator with a sense of humor.”

  The Washington Post: GOP activists in Iowa divided on whether Palin can carry 2012 banner

• “But who shall do justice to the dinner, and describe the turkey, and chickens, and chicken pies, with all that endless variety of vegetables which the American soil and climate have contributed to the table, and which, without regard to the French doctrine of courses, were all piled together in jovial abundance upon the smoking board?”

  Oldtown Folks

• “Bobby Jindal has enough problems in his state to keep him busy for awhile and Mike Huckabee seems to be known as a jovial and cheerful talk show host more than a serious presidential candidate at the moment.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert Guttman: Palin vs. Obama: It Could Happen and It Could Be a Close Election

• “During the break a jovial Simpson talked outside the courtroom about golf and college football.”

  O.J. trial: Quick decisions and applause

• “It is eminently in accordance with the signification of the English epithet -- rather a favorite, apparently, with our old writers -- the epithet jovial, which is derived from the Latin name of its head.”

  Mosaics of Grecian History

• “Late hours, heavy dinners, the indulgence of what are called jovial hours, and crowded parties, would soon have sent us whither they have sent so many of our literary contemporaries, long, long ago.”

  Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life

• “For several years Free Joe had what may be called a jovial time.”

  Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools

• “The effect in front was the face of a nondescript monster, that only a gleeful laughing eye, and now and then a flash of narrow white teeth, identified as the jovial Amoyah, the Pigeon of Ioco.”

  The Frontiersmen

• “He was naturally of an excitable -- what we may call a jovial -- jumping -- disposition, and, although he had now been some months at sea, he had not yet succeeded in crushing down that burst of delight with which he viewed the cod-end of the great deep-sea net as it was hoisted over the side by the power of block and tackle.”

  The Young Trawler

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