Jocosely [adverb]
Definition of Jocosely:
comically
Opposite/Antonyms of Jocosely:
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Sentence/Example of Jocosely:
Hence the name of aunt, by which I continued to call Theresa, and which my friends sometimes jocosely repeated.
Out of court Mr. Hallett, it is said, jocosely offers to bet ten dollars that he "will get Mr. Parker indicted."
She, at first, took what I said jocosely; and in her frolicsome humor, did and said things which made me die of love.
Nick accepted jocosely the attitude of suspense, but there was even more of it in his heart than in his face.
"I fancy I can tell an east wind when I feel it," said Mr. Skratdj, jocosely, to the company.
He had said something to himself jocosely about lovers' perjuries, the remembrance of which was now very bitter to him.
"You must not overwork at your editorial desk, my boy," he called jocosely from the distant threshold.
Upon which a noble lord jocosely remarked: "In plain Scotch, you mean, Mr. Clerk."
"We haven't either of us thought so well of it as to try it, Jackson," said the painter, jocosely.
Jocosely, for years afterward, Kate Fox was called the cipher in the house of Mr. Townsend.