jocose
She put her ten fingers before her face to represent bars, and peeped through them jocosely.
He believed that children should always be spoken to jocosely.
Her appearance was jocosely remarked upon at the time by her mother.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Humour & humorous
amusingly
bitingly
blackly
bone dryidiom
bring
drily
gag
geddit?
GSOH
jocose
lightly
non-serious
pawky
photobomb
photobombing
playfully
rib
standing joke
wag
wisecrack

Examples of jocosely

jocosely
He did not speak much, and jocosely as usual, but spoke in the tone of a commander, who was convinced of the other's guilt.
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She declared jocosely that it should be given to the first one of our girls who married.
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Now the parts were reversed, and the younger man found great solace in jocosely rallying his senior on his unwonted zeal and activity.
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I guess," jocosely, "your headache has made you 'see things at night,' hasn't it?
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I asked the question jocosely, but she took it up with seriousness.
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He could take things easily and jocosely, and have no thought of consequences.
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It was thought to bear the complexion of a joke, and we both laughed quite jocosely at it.
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He tucked his umbrella under his arm and jocosely spelled his name for her further enlightenment.
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He was a bachelor, and his only idea regarding children was that they should be treated jocosely.
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Somehow, the nickname, jocosely given, remained in use.
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The horse need not have a mouth, even, he added, jocosely, for reasons nobody need explain.
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The other answered jocosely and walked away; a door closed behind him.
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The president spoke jocosely, but there was a significant tone in his voice.
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I asked him what he meant, and he answered jocosely.
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Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously.
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