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adj. - Characterized by jokes and good humor adv. - With humor.

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  • They have hardened themselves in the excess of a jocular way, that a man cannot tell whenever they are serious.
  • Adjective : jocular remarks about opera stars
  • This, and my being esteem'd a pretty good riggite, that is, a jocular verbal satirist, supported my consequence in the society.
  • “Well, he — sometimes he would be a bit what he used to call jocular — about the spirits, you know, and what they said.”
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