jokey
adjective
lacking in seriousness; frivolous.
jokiness
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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 production by Josh Shaw, who founded POP a decade ago, has some of his trademark jokiness that turns into gripping theatricality in a surprising instant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2023
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
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
