jollities
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Stan's last surviving relative became coy and refused to enter into the jollities.
From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2011
A great outpouring of grief and anger and sorrow and doubt had to take place before the certainties and jollities of the mature writer could come into being.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 6, 2005
Pranks and jollities slide from gentle flippancy to hurly-burly burlesque.
From Time Magazine Archive
The periodic jollities of this company of men whose professed aim was to bury each other, had a high reputation for excellence.
From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold
His sunken cheeks out to the size Of most unnatural jollities, Because Anacreon looked jest-wise.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
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