Adjective, : The editorial had an offensively jokey tone for such an important subject. From Dictionary.com.
And not the sloppy kind of jokey funny, but real, cerebral humor. From Wordnik.com. [Supernatural: It’s a Terrible Life - Pink Raygun.com] Reference
He performs 'Tempted', and surprises Victoria because she expected him to be "jokey", not good. From Wordnik.com. [All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News] Reference
Like the Ramones, Death were more jokey than angry. From Wordnik.com. [The Music Of Death, Alive Again] Reference
It's like Ocean's 11 without any of the jokey charm. From Wordnik.com. [The Week in DVR: A Good Woody and Best Bond Since <i>Goldfinger</i>] Reference
She was trying for a jokey tone, but her voice shook. From Wordnik.com. [One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze]
He held his nine iron up in the air, a jokey threat. From Wordnik.com. [The Epidemic of Weariness] Reference
Dr. Raskin is tall, talkative and jokey in a Catskills way. From Wordnik.com. [New York's Top Hand Surgeons Go Scalpel-to-Scalpel in Feud] Reference
BECK: I mean this sincerely in a psychotic, jokey sort of way. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2006] Reference
It's not a jokey humor, though there are plenty of running jokes. From Wordnik.com. [Why The Sopranos Sing] Reference
And his best moment was the jokey thumbs up and smile at the end. From Wordnik.com. [Idol Season 9: Top 9...Again] Reference
"Excuse my dust" had been Mrs. Parker's jokey all-purpose epitaph. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel in Evening Clothes] Reference
"Thirty-two, last time I looked," I riposted, matching her jokey style. From Wordnik.com. [the mission song]
So, there was a different Thom Sebastian beneath the jokey party animal. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress of Justice]
I struggle sometimes to discern exactly what is jokey, scurrilous or serious. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
It's just half-cocked punky chants of the type concocted by numerous jokey support bands. From Wordnik.com. [FallNews] Reference
John McCain and his campaign are, as a friend of mine from Jersey puts it, "jokey joketown.". From Wordnik.com. [McCain Campaign Re-Releases Attack Ad That Was Already Revealed As Dishonest] Reference
You said you were looking for a ballad, didn't want to do one of the jokey songs, thank goodness. From Wordnik.com. [John Doe, The Sadies Rock The 'Country Club'] Reference
Arcimboldo, with his jokey shtick, also gets us to a punch line, fast, then lets us off the hook. From Wordnik.com. [Blake Gopnik on the Arcimboldo exhibit at the National Gallery of Art] Reference
He started with the reflective 'All This Time', an upbeat, almost jokey number about a dying man. From Wordnik.com. [Acoustic Live In Newcastle] Reference
Or take in the "trick art" at the JAIB Museum: jokey, 3-D paintings based on Western masterpieces. From Wordnik.com. [Tokyo Doze? A G-7 Survival Guide] Reference
We get it: The guy has speechwriters to handle the jokey stuff, and not a lot of time to watch MTV. From Wordnik.com. [Obama denies knowing "Jersey Shore"'s Snooki on "The View" (video)] Reference
"" Nightingales '' was swiftly forgotten, just another jokey story for Tartikoff to tell on himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Kid Who Saved Television] Reference
Kitschmeisters, beware: "" Painted From Memory '' isn't some jokey attempt to latch on to the lounge boom. From Wordnik.com. [The Odd Couple] Reference
Grunwald befriended a jokey, twinkly-eyed senior editor (as he describes the man) and soon was writing foreign news. From Wordnik.com. [Well, It's About Time] Reference
"Sneakers" sputters toward the finish line, when the narrow escapes get too silly and the jokey nonchalance too callow. From Wordnik.com. [The Games People Play] Reference
Anyway by the end things were better, because we started to pick fun at each other a little, just in a mutually jokey way. From Wordnik.com. [sheepdip Diary Entry] Reference
Her children do not bring her their problems, and conversation with their mother tends to be on a jokey, superficial basis. From Wordnik.com. [Mother And Queen] Reference
Any reader of the British press over the last 10 years is familiar with the charge sheet and will pick up the jokey references. From Wordnik.com. [Fake Blair, Real Hatchet] Reference
And then I went to see Rock and we reminisced about "Giant" and jokey things, like making chocolate martinis and fun things past. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 30, 2006] Reference
It's kind of like a jokey one, but then when I found out that my grandmother had one, I thought it was just an interesting parallel. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2002] Reference
SUSAN MOSS, FAMILY LAW ATTORNEY: On the day that she ` s arrested and going to the pokey, she fixes her hair like it ` s all a jokey. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2009] Reference
And I wanted to try and recreate, as much as I could, that rather sparky, fun-loving, anti-establishment, jokey person that I remembered. From Wordnik.com. [Roald Dahl: The Story Of The 'Storyteller'] Reference
It starts with a casual, jokey tension that as the day progresses turns increasingly manic, escalating by nightfall into full-pedal frenzy. From Wordnik.com. [News Junkies Race The Clock] Reference
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