jokey
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That this doesn’t play like jokey stunt casting speaks to the spirit of communal, all-hands-on-deck engagement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
There are several jokey videos depicting police chasing human sized cats, and Scottish drag performer Ellie Diamond has issued a video declaring that she is not the Cat in the Hat killer.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
The jokey tone, a universe away from the solemnity of Zack Snyder’s Superman films with Henry Cavill, would be more effective if it were actually funny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Rather than putting out a dry statement promising to cooperate with the authorities, five employees crafted a jokey response saying the robbers had taken KitKat’s “have a break” slogan a little too literally.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
It’s not mocking or jokey, it’s totally and completely open.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
Finland: Its best could be Nokia. 2,300 Style Invitational entries: even the best could be jokier.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2020
While the whole project is enjoyably looser, faster, jokier than Jemisin’s other novels, passages like this make it feel less disciplined or anchored in its rhetoric than her fantasy worlds.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2020
Other segments are indeed jokier in tone, since "Bubba the Love Sponge" was supposed to be a comedy show.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2019
There, it was altogether jokier; here it’s got an earnestly efficient cool.
From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2016
Others, such as Caledonian Smoking Picture, from the same year, are jokier.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2011
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