Given to jesting

Usage examples of jocular.

He approached Blanche Evers, smiling and dandling his body a little, and making her two or three jocular bows.

While this place now is quiet from lack of occupants, there was a day when it was a gleesome place, jocular and laughter loving.

He seemed relaxed but itchy underneath, with his old jocular front back in place.

Donaldson wondered why she had screamed so and received a jocular response from Milton that the women had not much enjoyed what happened to them during the long ride across north London.

The bullishness at once disappeared from his manner to be replaced by the jocular charm that had owners regularly mesmerised, that morning being no exception.

Now like pus spurting from a boil, there came flooding her mind his constant jocular chastisement of her over petty misdemeanours concerning the table or his personal linen: should she omit to roll his breakfast bun in a napkin to keep it hot, should the white of his fried egg not be crisped brown while the yokes remained soft, he would bestow on her a pained glance.

CHAPTER XIII OUR KNIGHT IN JAIL As Haldane emerged from the office into the open glare of the street, he was oppressed with such an intolerable sense of shame that he became sick and faint, and tottered against the policeman, who took no other notice of his condition than the utterance of a jocular remark: "You haven't got over your drunk yet, I'm athinking.

She was sleek A and beautiful as a wet otter, the sunlight on her body gave it a plastic sheen, an unearthly glow, and even from where he lay, Craig could feel the jocular mood of the men watching her thicken with lust, and begin to steam with the stirring of sexual fury.

In the Enterprise ready room, the fliers listened avidly to the jocular, occasionally obscene radio exchanges pouring from the loudspeaker as the Hornet planes found the two cripples and plastered them with half-ton bomb hits.

Terry Neill was a new stepfather, matey, jocular, dislikeable however hard he tried.

It was said that he could turn a funeral procession into a conga line, and, although there is no evidence to show that he ever took advantage of this particular gift, he was never short of a jocular quip or two as he slipped a few duff sprouts into a customers carrier-bag.

At dinner in his quarters the superintendent had been jocular with Halliday, his old wing-mate, they had called each other "Bud" and "Sparky," but now he was all stern dignity, escorting the guests to reserved seats, then mounting to the podium beside a tall white screen.

Watching the final act of the battle from the sidelines, the dawazz kept up a running commentary, alternating between philosophical observations on the just deserts of piracy and jocular remarks on the incompetence of barbarian swordsmen.

It was a jocular, squealing voice, and Ben realized with sudden numbing certainty that he was hearing Pennywise Itself.

A humorous device such as a china horse or small naked porcelain infant which jocular hosts use of piss water into your Scotch with.