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- adjective rare Not
jocular ; without good humour.
Etymologies
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un- + jocular
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Examples
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No personal calamities or distresses (of which that humourist had his share in common with the unjocular part of mankind) could altogether keep his humour down.
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No personal calamities or distresses (of which that humourist had his share in common with the unjocular part of mankind) could altogether keep his humour down.
The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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