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jocularly

jocularly \joc"u*lar*ly\ (j[o^]k"[-u]*l[~e]r*l[y^]), adv. In jest; for sport or mirth; jocosely.

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jocularly

adv. In a jocular manner; humourously.

Usage examples of "jocularly".

Sean Michael jocularly replied before vaulting over the fence as easily as if he had been doing it all his life.

Pete, complaining jocularly about something, and picking his discolored front teeth with a toothpick.

It seemed to him that it would help the good cause for which so many Americans are ready to lay down their lives, if his wife should, as he jocularly called it, open a saloon.

So we both agreed to walk the twenty blocks to what I jocularly called my bachelor pad.

He would twit her with Jacobinical opinions and quote her sayings in company--sometimes jocularly, sometimes ruefully, for he himself posed as a staunch Government man.

And he had had two coronary thromboses, the second (the "second warning" as his doctor, Jimmy Greaves, who had been one of their high poker game at Prince's Club when Dexter Smythe had first come to Jamaica, had half jocularly put it) only a month before.