jokiness
- a word derived from jokey.
Example Sentences
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But those early books are also marred by a shaggy, frenetic jokiness and a sense that DeLillo was still finding his way.
From New York Times • May 22, 2024
It can be oblique, less about jokes than jokiness, but critical enough to his art to place him in the pantheon of great Jewish funny men.
From Seattle Times • May 24, 2021
It was a brief and excruciating nose-to-nose encounter, in which Weinstein effected a capricious Caligula mood-shift to jokiness, making complimentary remarks about the paper’s Edward Snowden story.
From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2017
With nods to “Bonnie and Clyde,” “Badlands” and “Take the Money and Run,” among others, director Eddie O’Keefe’s pastiche veers distractingly between jokiness and reverence.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2016
The laughing jokiness of the past few minutes was completely gone as Dimple pointed the camera at the statue and took a picture.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
