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词汇 jokey
释义 jokey
adjective
 informaluk /ˈdʒəʊ.ki/ us /ˈdʒoʊ.ki/
funny有趣的,逗乐的
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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

Examples of jokey


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.
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It was slightly jokey—as most of his speeches are—but it was extraordinarily shallow.
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There is a good, jokey picture on the front.
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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.
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In his jokey way he referred to warehousing people.
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We wanted to talk to him about various issues, so some of us left jokey messages on his answering m whine.
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Quite a small example comes perhaps under the heading of jokey idioms.
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In his jokey performance, we saw a man more impressed by gimmicks and theatricality than by substance.
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They may be falsely jokey about the procedure and the applicant, who is stressed by the experience, is made to feel worse.
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I wanted to avoid that because it is generally considered rather jokey.
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The songs ranged from covers of traditional songs to double entendre and jokey banter.
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