Jocular

The unsolved problem that tormented him was caused by hints given by the princess, his cousin, at Moscow, concerning Dólokhov’s intimacy with his wife, and by an anonymous letter he had received that morning, which in the mean jocular way common to anonymous letters said that he saw badly through his spectacles, but that his wife’s connection with Dólokhov was a secret to no one but himself.

The echo spoke back, changed into the dangerously jocular voice of an approaching lunatic: “.

Why do you not tell her to try Dr. Lanahan’s Life Preservers?” Another would be jocular in tone, slapping you on the back, so to speak.

“Ah, ah!” said Bonacieux, “you are a jocular companion!

Jocular.

Save with Paul Riesling, mechanical friendships—back-slapping and jocular, never daring to essay the test of quietness.

I think I’ll explore.” Bellonda hated it when he took that jocular attitude toward surveillance.