jolly
adjective
in good spirits; lively; merry.
jollied
Example Sentences
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The audience is jollied along by Veneziale with polite puckishness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2022
These weren’t people jollied by the guy with the funny hair.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2021
It was a perfect misunderstanding, between two strangers who’d been jollied into conjunction by a go-between—me, that is.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 2, 2019
Set on a train to Chicago just before Christmas 1930, it is excruciatingly jollied up here, with audience participation during a jokily ad-libbed interlude in which some of the many roles are given to spectators.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2015
Then Big Ma, who’d been jollied out of her fussing, was once again sharp and angry.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
