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  • adjective comparative form of jolly: more jolly

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Examples

  • Mary-Louisa could not help admitting in her heart that the old times had been better times; they had been "jollier" she said.

    Married August Strindberg 1880

  • Julesburg afterward) was a great "jollier," and he wasn't afraid of anybody on earth.

    Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various

  • He looks like an older, jollier version of Cliff Clavin from "Cheers," and on any given day can likely be found behind the register, ringing up customers.

    An Ice Cream Pilgrim's Progress Myla Goldberg 2011

  • It was only Ned Hermanmann, fatter, bronder-faced, jollier looking than ever.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • The Stoop certainly seems a jollier place than in the reign of Dean Richards and tries by the young hooker Joe Gray and Mike Brown in the first 16 minutes ensured Quins had the last laugh here.

    Rory Clegg steps out of Nick Evans's pocket as Harlequins beat Sale 2011

  • I might even rip out the Surprise I have knit so far and start again, adding jollier yarns from stash and modelling their arrangement on pictures in the leaflet.

    Jean's Knitting Jean 2009

  • Fearing the dark, into which he observed all men passed, he built beyond the dark a fairer region, a happier hunting-ground, a jollier and robuster feasting-hall and wassailing-place, and called it variously

    CHAPTER XIV 2010

  • I might even rip out the Surprise I have knit so far and start again, adding jollier yarns from stash and modelling their arrangement on pictures in the leaflet.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Jean 2009

  • Looking younger than I was had the effect of convincing me that I really wasn't 40, or 50, or what I am now -- a 57 year old woman with wrecked knees, which may not be a problem, because as one of my jollier friends says, "We're on the down escalator now."

    Elizabeth Lesser: On Becoming a Grandmother 2010

  • Plus, the more fluorescent flashing lights they bear -- and the louder the absurd noises they emit -- the jollier she is.

    Juliet Linley: Coin-Chomping for Children's Charities 2010

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