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  • adverb In a joky manner; jokingly, humorously.

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Examples

  • Referred to jokily in some correspondence as “Waldstein”—the name of Roald’s favorite Beethoven piano sonata—in letters home, he was also portrayed melodramatically as “a dark cunning little Jew.”

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • In the spin room afterwards, Romney's spokesman Eric Fehrnstromm laughed off the $10,000 bet, saying it was like a family member jokily betting $1m.

    Iowa Republican debate: Gingrich banks Romney's '$10,000 bet' gaffe 2011

  • In "Love in a Bottle" the magician Klingsor cures Sir Lancelot of his love for Queen Guinevere, with unexpected – or, rather, expected – results the tone of jokily anachronistic Arthurianism, incidentally, anticipates TH White's The Once and Future King by some years.

    Love in a Bottle by Antal Szerb – review Nicholas Lezard 2010

  • This affecting, deeply depressing documentary sees its director returning to his native Yorkshire town of Hebden Bridge, which someone jokily describes as "a drug town with a serious tourist problem".

    Shed Your Tears and Walk Away 2010

  • That was the thing I was most worried about but they were fantastic - two exceptionally strong and hard-working Hungarians who were jokily insulted when Paul assumed they were Polish.

    New flat kisobel 2008

  • So it is good to return to the home of British puppetry and discover an unpretentious family show, written and composed by Barb Jungr, that is both jokily tuneful and a tribute to the power of theimagination.

    The Fabulous Flutterbys 2010

  • “What a lovely life it must be to be an expensive and well cared-for stud-dog,” he speculated to Ann Watkins, adding jokily that it would of course be nice “to have a say in the choice of bitches.”

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • It's paid John Barnes to jokily recreate his notoriously poor rap from the 1990 New Order single World In Motion.

    Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: World Cup 2010

  • That was the thing I was most worried about but they were fantastic - two exceptionally strong and hard-working Hungarians who were jokily insulted when Paul assumed they were Polish.

    kisobel: New flat kisobel 2008

  • This is something I often jokily sing to myself as I watch New York transform into some kind of gigantic Palm Beach—a place for only the super-wealthy.

    The Double Life is Twice as Good Jonathan Ames 2009

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