jocularities
- plural of jocularity.
Example Sentences
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Then there was a banquet, at which Teacher Scopes stammered a few embarrassed words and the important lawyers indulged in brilliant jocularities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not that the jocularities were inane beyond the usual, but failure made them seem so.
From The Pretty Lady by Bennett, Arnold
She would eat only convent fare at first, notwithstanding the importunities of the waiters, and the jocularities of the captain, and particularly of the clerk.
From Balcony Stories by King, Grace E.
He jibed at him as a vulgar impostor; but it is easy to perceive, under his scornful jocularities, the traces of an uneasy respect.
From Eminent Victorians by Strachey, Giles Lytton
He has, however, according to Horace, some low jocularities; and those smart sayings, which made the vulgar laugh, made him be pitied by men of higher taste.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Johnson, Samuel
