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jocular
1. “Sup y’all,” Braun said with a jocular smirk that mocked my use of the greeting “y’all,” while the others gave me handshakes in requite
2. I think no one misinterpreted my jocular remark that “I would kick Pressly’s butt (in negotiations)” as a “threat” in a physical sense
3. Fighting will not achieve anything! -said in a jocular tone and instantly ended the confrontation
4. The visitor opened and closed her mouth many times awaiting mad snappy answers berserker ready to decapitate a body or two, but all that came to mind were half-finished insults that were no more than 'You're religion's so lame it cripples its followers' – an accusation without a jocular insight
5. 'But, my dear Frau Nieberlein, a complete stranger! And such an unpleasantly jocular old man
6. And I think it so very ill-bred to be jocular in the wrong places
7. The man was not in a jocular mood
8. certo, was in a jocular mood toward the opera singers of his
9. She continued sitting on the floor and while our conversation continued in a jocular fashion she sidled towards me
10. He mentioned again the correspondence in a jocular way
11. It was always a merry time and after having learned of her clandestine affair with Hassan I started making jocular insinuations asking her,
12. We were by that time familiar and whenever we met exchanged jocular and
13. She laughed and in a jocular tone said,
14. I am, of course, being jocular and perhaps unfair, for she did love me and our love life flourished as never before
15. A discussion of the film, of homosexuality, the morals of our inexplicably provincial and hypocritical society where every deviation from a narrow-minded framework invariably surfaces in gossip and Monette"s jocular recounting of the latest scandals
16. Again, and Paul could understand him least then, he was jocular and in high spirits
17. Long practised in all the subtle arts of his race, he drew, with great dexterity and quickness, the fantastic shadow that the natives were accustomed to consider as the evidence of a friendly and jocular disposition
18. (He wags his head with cackling raillery) Jocular
19. The drowsy answers—grumpy, conciliating, savage, jocular, or deprecating—came out into the silent darkness in which the horseman sat still, and presently a dark figure would flit out coughing in the still air
20. "I shall go to the wall," he said, with a sort of jocular desperation
21. ‘The soldiers say it feels easier without boots,’ said Captain Tushin smiling shyly in his uncomfortable position, evidently wishing to adopt a jocular tone
22. The unsolved problem that tormented him was caused by hints given by the princess, his cousin, at Moscow, concerning Dolokhov’s intimacy with his wife, and by an anonymous letter he had received that morning, which in the mean jocular way common to anonymous letters said that he saw badly through his spectacles, but that his wife’s connection with Dolokhov was a secret to no one but himself
23. His tone became jocular
24. He quickly passes from a jocular to a dignified air, from dignity to playfulness or winking, but all this seems somehow put on and causeless
25. He is a convict of the special section, very good-natured, and gay, far from stupid, and jocular without malice
26. "He was one of the herd of the famous—" said Pákhtin, still with an inquisitive glance, prepared to make that quotation both jocular and serious
27. “The soldiers say it feels easier without boots,” said Captain Túshin smiling shyly in his uncomfortable position, evidently wishing to adopt a jocular tone
28. The unsolved problem that tormented him was caused by hints given by the princess, his cousin, at Moscow, concerning Dólokhov’s intimacy with his wife, and by an anonymous letter he had received that morning, which in the mean jocular way common to anonymous letters said that he saw badly through his spectacles, but that his wife’s connection with Dólokhov was a secret to no one but himself