jokey
adjective
lacking in seriousness; frivolous.
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
The bleakness of its nuclear war scenario is counterbalanced by its schoolboy jokiness, giving its characters names like Gen. Jack D. Ripper, Col.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 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
Another, Made in Heaven, produced at Chichester two years previously, was said by Michael Billington of the Guardian to be the product of random jokiness rather than a sustained comic vision.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 1, 2016
Now jokiness had made way for melodrama, or plaintiveness.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
