jocoseness
jocosity

With an off-handedness verging on winsome jocoseness, he posited that if his titles published around 102 articles about Madeleine, and had to settle libel actions on about 38, this meant that 65 or so of them were "good".

You try that on for size," he said with bitter jocosity.

His features were not naturally intended to wear a smiling aspect, but he was in general rather given to professional jocosity.

Alleyn turned to Dulcie, who at once put on her expression of terrified jocosity.

There those who had only known him in his professional capacity were surprised to find him displaying the tenderness and jocosity of a parent.

"Well, dearie," said the driver, with a dreadful jocosity, "you're going to take a little walk with us, back here in the fields a ways."

Atlas asked with grim jocosity."

It was famously sung by Oliver Hazell who is described to have given performances with extreme jocosity.

- Diana Drew (Jocosity Inc., 2003)

On shore Good is a gentle, mild-mannered man, and given to jocosity; but, as we found to our cost, Good in a boat was a perfect demon.

"I wish that all radicals were like Miss Beatrice," said Geoffrey, who was feeling exceedingly uncomfortable, with a feeble attempt at polite jocosity.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Doranden," Havzhiva said, "please pardon my poor efforts at jocosity.

To me, I know not why, there was something horrible in all this jocosity, something that gave me the creeps as always does the sight of a cat playing with a mouse.

Yanur, Grotara, and Thirlain Ludoch, three of the king's hardiest henchmen, riding forth at morn from the palace in Miraab, debated with a thin semblance of jocosity whether, in their case, obedience or disobedience would prove the direr evil.

It is sometimes very trying, though also perhaps very instructive, for a new slave, perhaps a woman of a conquered city, to be marched thusly through the streets, stung with pebbles, pinched and slapped, subjected to the most intimate forms of raillery, jocosity and abuse.

Scarcely had this service, as solemn as it was simple, been brought to an end when the head jailer, whose blasphemous jocosity since his reproof by Anna was replaced by a mien of sullen venom, came forward and commanded the whole band to march to the amphitheatre.

She, and such women as are fittest, go through the ranks; speak with an earnest jocosity; clasp rough troopers to their patriot bosom, crush down spontoons and musketoons with soft arms: can a man, that were worthy of the name of man, attack famishing patriot women?