His lordship cordially wished me every possible success in the service; and to his order, to repair on board the Warrior, he jocosely added, “I suppose your luggage can be easily conveyed to your ship.
Defn: A jocosely depreciative name for a dwelling or shop.
Note: In this sense the vulgar pronounciation (so"jer) is jocosely preserved.
The theory of the interjection being abandoned (jocosely termed the "Ah!
To another friend, however, hejocosely observed, on this occasion, that those he had were chiefly Norfolk men, and he always reckoned them as good as two others.
And, saying this, he glared balefully at me with one eye and leered jocosely with the other, and into my ribs came his elbow again.
It was as if, jocosely enough, he had had time to make up his mind how to meet her.
He looked backward and forward from Miss Milroy to Allan, and declared jocosely that he understood now why his friend's morning walks were always taken in the same direction.
Here he stopped, and asked jocosely whether Mr. Armadale saw his way now, or whether it would be necessary to test his patience by making an explanation.
Of this word, a writer jocosely remarks: "Fizzling is a somewhat free translation of an intricate sentence; proving a proposition in geometry from a wrong figure.
A title sometimesjocosely given by students to the person who has the care of their rooms.
Mackintosh jocosely took down a volume of Lord Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, in which mention is made of a Sir Julius Cæsar, Master of the Rolls in the time of Charles the First.
That would be witnessing a spectacle by a sort of second sight, as Arend jocosely remarked.
They still walked leisurely from the hall to their chamber, and from their chamber to the hall, whence it was jocosely said by Lord Stanhope, that "the judges walked, but the trial stood still.
The old grizzled sea veteran scratched the remains of his ear, and growled jocoselywhile nodding to young Darcantel.
Soon after this, he had liberty allowed him of coming upon deck, where the captain entered into conversation with him, and jocosely asked if he thought he could be at home before him.
Sir William then asked him jocosely if he could find out which was his dove.
His lordship would frequently make himself merry with the story, and jocosely say, that he was more expert in the science of mumping than even Mr. Carew himself.
Lady Agnes and her elder daughter exchanged one of their looks, and Nick exclaimed jocosely that he didn't see why the whole party should be sacrificed to a presumptuous child.
Nick accepted jocosely the attitude of suspense, but there was even more of it in his heart than in his face.
The most fashionable style of dressing the hair wasjocosely called "a la guillotine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jocosely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
