Adjective : a jocose and amusing manner. From Dictionary.com.
"You must not overwork at your editorial desk, my boy," he called jocosely from the distant threshold. From Wordnik.com. [Paul and the Printing Press] Reference
Logic makes one grin jocosely into the face of the Noseless One and to sneer at all the phantasmagoria of living. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 36] Reference
It answered jocosely, "Will be with you to-morrow.". From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
"Half dead or half drunk," McNeil jocosely suggested. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
"No sir, -- a fountain of life," replied he, jocosely. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making] Reference
The General smiled and nudged the young fellow jocosely. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Chad had risked it jocosely, but Strether remained blank. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
‘How are we to – day,’ said Mr Pecksniff, jocosely. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
His brother used jocosely to assure me that it really meant. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
“What rascals they all are!” says the officer jocosely. From Wordnik.com. [The Schoolmistress and other stories] Reference
‘YOU in silk stockings!’ exclaimed Mr. Tupman jocosely. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference
"You make a good thing of it?" inquires the Judge, jocosely. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
"Bow-legs, mebbe," put in Mr. Cinch both jocosely and ruefully. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
Stebelkov put in, jocosely pointing at himself with his finger. From Wordnik.com. [A Raw Youth] Reference
"That is what you might call a horn of plenty," said Jim jocosely. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference
"You are fleeing from the court; I, toward it," he remarked, jocosely. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Indeed, it has been jocosely said that he sometimes poses as a victim. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
The other answered jocosely and walked away; a door closed behind him. From Wordnik.com. [Half A Chance] Reference
He walks freely without a cane, and talks jocosely of running footraces. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
A booming voice, which made the floorboards tingle, was saying jocosely. From Wordnik.com. [Burmese Days] Reference
Keene put in jocosely -- "here's to his health!" and he emptied his glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Violin to practise, I jocosely asked him if he could play on that instrument. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
‘The marriage service, night and morning, eh?’ observed the lawyer, jocosely. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of Life] Reference
On entering Smithfield, he jocosely said, that the place had long groaned for him. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
"Troubled your spirits yesterday," added the youth jocosely, pulling his mustache. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
'Well, my lad, I've got rid of a lot of bad material to-day,' he remarked jocosely. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah's School Friend] Reference
“It seems to me you own a human being or two,” Mr. Bantling suggested jocosely. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady] Reference
He writes in a variety of styles; sometimes in low spirits; sometimes quite jocosely. From Wordnik.com. [Reprinted Pieces] Reference
Then he burst into a loud laugh, and, when he had laughed long enough, he said, jocosely. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference
Of this Jesuit, he had jocosely asserted he was going to take lessons in the art of intrigue. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
“Mr. Slope has lost more than the deanery I find,” and then the archdeacon laughed jocosely. From Wordnik.com. [Barchester Towers] Reference
And according to this whimsical belief, he writes and talks jocosely, but with covert common sense. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
"I can quite understand why the two families kept apart from each other," observed the notary, jocosely. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I have frequently heard the General jocosely remark that he longed for a Secretary of War who would not "make him cry.". From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
It is jocosely said, that in the West, whose rivers are shallow and uncertain, the steamers are built to run on a heavy dew. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
'Warm soup!' said the man jocosely; 'why, the enemy cook enough of that for us, only they warm us in rather a different way. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Carpenters of Freiberg A Tale of the Thirty Years' War] Reference
Aristophanes jocosely calls the Athenian pieces owls of Laurium, in allusion to the gold mines there, in which they were hatched. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886] Reference
Most of the whole got a little; but a great many gave their part to the weakly, jocosely saying something cheering to their comrades. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
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