Exempel på jokey

• The idea is to make the theme and episodes part of a flowing continuum rather than to heighten the return by jokey or dramatic preparation.

• She wanted a dad who was more 'friendly and jokey', like her friends' dads.

• His explorations of the perceptual effects of scale are sometimes jokey, sometimes profound, but always refreshing and unpretentious.

• Male senders are less common, but fathers working hundreds of miles from home greet their children, and jokey brothers indulge the collecting or star-worshipping manias of their sisters.

• He amused us all very much by treating it as a jokey subject, but the whole idea of capital punishment is quite obscene.

• It was slightly jokey—as most of his speeches are—but it was extraordinarily shallow.

• There is a good, jokey picture on the front.

• He professed to prefer the interests of the victim to—and again he said it in his jokey way—the antenatal history of the of fender.

• In his jokey way he referred to warehousing people.

• We wanted to talk to him about various issues, so some of us left jokey messages on his answering m whine.

• Quite a small example comes perhaps under the heading of jokey idioms.

• In his jokey performance, we saw a man more impressed by gimmicks and theatricality than by substance.

• They may be falsely jokey about the procedure and the applicant, who is stressed by the experience, is made to feel worse.

• I wanted to avoid that because it is generally considered rather jokey.

• The songs ranged from covers of traditional songs to double entendre and jokey banter.