Voorbeelden van jocularly

• She was dressed up and jocularly posing in front of a mirror.

• "What have you got in here, lad?" Bruna asked jocularly.

• He also jocularly saluted all the children.

• I should like to say one last word about something which has been jocularly referred to but which is, in fact, serious.

• I said that jocularly, but the documentation is beyond human endurance to follow.

• The attraction of this country is gradually disappearing, and the narrator talked—perhaps jocularly—about our returning to the dark ages.

• I take his remark as he meant it—jocularly.

• It is a proverb which the people quote jocularly against themselves, because they can make a joke against themselves even in their present conditions.

• Sometimes spoken words, however apparently defamatory, may be spoken jocularly or in certain circumstances and create no damage at all.

• Somebody once jocularly remarked that politicians go on and on and on.

• We have here, therefore, a serious problem about which one can talk jocularly.

• In the old days competing football team supporters would criticise one another and jocularly refer to one another.

• The island word "overner" is usually used jocularly to refer to someone who comes from the mainland.

• They tell us that we are dealing jocularly with this problem, and that we are trying to get in a number of bad arguments because we cannot find good ones.

• It might be said, perhaps jocularly, that it does the police a great deal of good and there is no reason to suppose that it harms the children.

• If that example is not enough, there is the case of the actress who jocularly appealed for sixpences with which to buy a new mink coat.

• We should not underestimate, or deal flippantly or jocularly with, a clause that is doing what this clause will inevitably do to the education system throughout the land.

• I said "we may have" jocularly.