Adjective : a jocose and amusing manner. From Dictionary.com.
To tell the truth, a part of his jocoseness was a blind; he was the greatest peace-maker, except Mr. Harmony in the play, that ever was born. From Wordnik.com. [The Cloister and the Hearth] Reference
"Might have known that!" with an attempt at jocoseness. From Wordnik.com. [Half A Chance] Reference
For ease and jocoseness of description it stands almost unapproachable. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
He said it with as much jocoseness as civility allowed, then at once rose. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
City of the world, with so much of the material of jocoseness is an odd problem. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 30, 1919] Reference
“I went there, but I had taken flight,” the doctor answered with gloomy jocoseness. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
At table, the pleasures of which in moderation were his only relaxation, he was always animated and merry; and this jocoseness was partly natural, partly intentional. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
"Am I of any consequence?" he asked, with an effort at jocoseness. From Wordnik.com. [Jewel's Story Book] Reference
"Have you seen Job Braden, Mr. Crewe?" he asked, with genial jocoseness. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
He tried to give a little touch of jocoseness to it, but failed miserably. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen] Reference
Anything like the jocoseness of Mr. Guppy's mother just now, I think I never saw. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House]
"I went there, but I had taken flight," the doctor answered with gloomy jocoseness. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
'Bess,' cried Samuel, with an affected jocoseness, 'you're called upon to apologise. From Wordnik.com. [The Nether World] Reference
It was Mr. Mawmsey's friendly jocoseness in questioning him which had set the tone of. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
It was Mr. Mawmsey's friendly jocoseness in questioning him which had set the tone of Lydgate's reply. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
Page 18 his great prototype, William of Orange, His jocoseness was partly natural, partly intentional. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Lincoln; His Life and Its Lessons] Reference
"I cal'late we didn't get out any too soon, Miss Carvel," he remarked, with a sad attempt at jocoseness. From Wordnik.com. [The Crisis — Volume 05] Reference
Mr. Pepperill looked pained, not knowing just how to prevent such jocoseness on the part of his adversary. From Wordnik.com. [By Advice of Counsel] Reference
James entered into his chamber without any visible expression of jocoseness issuing from the fertile brains of Sir John Finett. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
By this time the wine had arrived, and Dr. Armitage, while he busied himself in pouring out a glassful, assumed an air of jocoseness and said. From Wordnik.com. [Three People] Reference
Rough jocoseness, diffusiveness, local prejudice, a life spent on details, a lack of philosophy. -- these are faults, but they are British faults. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11] Reference
In his world geniality, translated into jocoseness, was indispensable before, during, and after a wedding -- even at these scarcely usual nuptials!. From Wordnik.com. [A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg] Reference
He had not the customary jocoseness when they met at the close of day; he asked no questions about how she had spent her time; his manner was preoccupied. From Wordnik.com. [The Whirlpool] Reference
Indifferent to the progress of time, Bevis talked on with his usual jocoseness, now and then shaking his tawny hair in a fit of laughter the most contagious. From Wordnik.com. [The Odd Women] Reference
At table, the pleasures of which, in moderation, were his only relaxation, he was always animated and merry, and this jocoseness was partly natural, partly intentional. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Sir Hugo did not put this question with his usual jocoseness, but rather with a lowered tone of interested inquiry; and Deronda felt that any evasion would be misinterpreted. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Deronda] Reference
Joseph walked homewards with deliberation, in absent mood, his countenance alternating strangely between a look of mischievous jocoseness and irritable concern; occasionally he muttered to himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Nether World] Reference
A voice and air strangely made up of jocoseness, awkwardness, and deference. From Wordnik.com. [The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance] Reference
Anything like the jocoseness of Mr. Guppy’s mother just now, I think I never saw. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House] Reference
And folks in the Eleventh Ward are even asking me how you get your living, "added Citizen Drew, smoothing his curiosity with a bit of jocoseness. From Wordnik.com. [The Landloper] Reference
Hugo, with an air of jocoseness. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Deronda] Reference
Irons laughed with coarse jocoseness. From Wordnik.com. [The Philistines] Reference
Dugald, and his amiably ponderous jocoseness?. From Wordnik.com. [Theo A Sprightly Love Story] Reference
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