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词汇 jocularly
释义 jocularly
adverb
 formaluk /ˈdʒɒk.jə.lə.li/ us /ˈdʒɑː.kjə.lɚ.li/
in a happy way and liking to make jokes: 爱开玩笑地
The remarks were delivered jocularly to the whole room.这番话被戏谑地传给了整个房间的人。
"Who would have thought it?" she said jocularly.“谁会想到呢?”她开玩笑地说道。
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jocular
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.
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 jocularly


jocularly
I should like to say one last word about something which has been jocularly referred to but which is, in fact, serious.
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I said that jocularly, but the documentation is beyond human endurance to follow.
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The attraction of this country is gradually disappearing, and the narrator talked—perhaps jocularly—about our returning to the dark ages.
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I take his remark as he meant it—jocularly.
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It is a proverb which the people quote jocularly against themselves, because they can make a joke against themselves even in their present conditions.
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Sometimes spoken words, however apparently defamatory, may be spoken jocularly or in certain circumstances and create no damage at all.
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Somebody once jocularly remarked that politicians go on and on and on.
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We have here, therefore, a serious problem about which one can talk jocularly.
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In the old days competing football team supporters would criticise one another and jocularly refer to one another.
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The island word "overner" is usually used jocularly to refer to someone who comes from the mainland.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I said "we may have" jocularly.
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