jocose

"Well," in a loose, jocose manner, "I think the old man will!"

With measured stoic gestures she read first an affectionate and jocose note from her son-in-law; then her daughter's letter.

Bud snickered at this crack, then noticed that Judge Fang did not appear to be in an especially jocose mood.

"Well aged parent," said Wemmick, shaking hands with him in a cordial and jocose way, "how am you?"

Of all PATIOS they declared that mine was the most preposterous and the most jocose in sound.

The tone of the reviewing had a jocose quality quite new in France: the section on three-star-style temples was called "Fais-Moi Mal!"

'Good morning to you, Colambre,' said his father, in a more jocose tone of reproach; 'I am obliged to you for your good company last night.'

The fly-drivers, among whom I inquired next, were equally jocose and equally disrespectful; and the shopkeepers, not liking my appearance, generally replied, without hearing what I had to say, that they had got nothing for me.

Of course, Fislinger here is a grocery clerk, Elmer is a ward politician, Horace is a dancing master--" He was drowned beneath a surf of protests, not too jocose and friendly.

In 1800, George Frederick Cooke made his London début with Richard III and was immediately denounced (by the Sun, no less) as "too jocose and familiar"; over the remaining 10 years of his English career, he was brutally and routinely attacked by pretty well every critic in town.