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Example sentences for "jocosity"

Lexicographically close words:
jockeying; jockeys; jockies; jocose; jocosely; jocular; jocularity; jocularly; jocund; jodel
  1. All along he inferred that she understood him, and accepted his veneer of jocosity and insincerity at its true value.

  2. She sang, and joked, and danced, and played, with an excess of jocosity that jarred him painfully.

  3. He would connect the idea of great jocosity with unprincipled designs.

  4. Much of this jocosity scarcely deserves the name of humour, and we may remark that in Jonson's time it did not receive it.

  5. His keen sensibility apprehended the sudden jocosity as a jeer, but before he could say aught the blacksmith had undertaken to reply.

  6. It was astonishing that a family otherwise simply perfect should be content with jocosity when jocosity was so obviously out of place.

  7. At the first his extremely youthful appearance and his jocosity of manner stood in the way.

  8. Read poems and passages of broadest jocosity and see if you find any wisdom intermixed with their ingenuity and their good nature.

  9. There is something so horribly jarring in the semi-jocosity of the last phrase that Jim jumps up from his chair and walks towards the window, where Mr. Wilson is sitting in dismal idleness.


  10. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jocosity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.