jocularity
noun
the state or quality of being jocular.
jocularities
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pluralof jocularity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
Ballad: The Played-Out Humorist Quixotic is his enterprise, and hopeless his adventure is, Who seeks for jocularities that haven't yet been said.
From Songs of a Savoyard by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
It seems, from some jocularities attributed to his lordship, that he adds to his many other claims to distinction that of being a man of wit.
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton
Not that the jocularities were inane beyond the usual, but failure made them seem so.
From The Pretty Lady by Arnold Bennett
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 Samuel Johnson
