jocose
adjective
jocosely
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a word derived from
jocose.
Example Sentences
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Thus the Bulgars will have double incitement to buy Fords, often jocosely called "road bugs," for pleasant travel in their craggy country.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had nine Rolls-Royces and three chauffeurs, a $400,000 yacht on which he once jocosely ran up a flag bearing skull & crossbones.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lord Dunsany jocosely boasts himself the most ill-dressed man in all County Meath.
From Time Magazine Archive
He became known, jocosely, as "the little confessor of Hollywood."
From Time Magazine Archive
“He couldn’t hit a house, couldn’t Hicks,” Mr Brathwaite was wont to observe jocosely, “unless he were put inside and all the doors and shutters barred up.”
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
