jocosity

How to use jocosity in a sentence

• Innocence and jocosity were two of her leading characteristics; another was a genuine but ingenuous literary faculty.

  Witching Hill | E. W. Hornung

• Colonel Waring had evolved the belief that young men could be coaxed out of their natural shyness by well-timed jocosity.

  Lady Lilith | Stephen McKenna

• He referred the point to Westover, who knew an inner earnestness in it, in spite of Whitwell's habit of outside jocosity.

  The Landlord at Lion's Head, Complete | William Dean Howells

• Paul had better come and defend himself,” he said, still clinging to his jocosity; “I am going to get him.

  Jupiter Lights | Constance Fenimore Woolson

• Let him amuse the children, relax with jocosity the sternness of adults, and wreathe into smiles the wrinkles of old age.

  The Atlantic Monthly , Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 | Various