jokey
adjective
lacking in seriousness; frivolous.
jokiness
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a word derived from
jokey.
Example Sentences
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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
But it’s one of those overscripted movie moments that hits like a fist-sized hailstone, and the movie's wobbly, know-it-all jokiness only makes things worse.
From Time ● Sep. 4, 2017
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
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
Now jokiness had made way for melodrama, or plaintiveness.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
