Example sentences for: jocular

How can you use “jocular” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The connections among enemy soldiers have rarely been made so palpable--or jocular.

  • The vocabulary is jocular in its easy mixture of the casual (in slang or coinages or abbreviations), the learned (in avatar, baroque, catatonic, synchronous ), the visual (in hieroglyphics or emoticons), and even the aural (in the fondness for explosives, like bang , common spoken name for !) or onomatopoeia ( bletch, glitch, gonk ).

  • Yet, as we all know, there are many instances of playful language, which we encounter every day, and there is no sound reason to reject playfulness solely on the grounds that it is “unscholarly” to be jocular.

  • in the phrase ain't I ,” was not reflective of the facts: I knew many cultivated speakers in most parts of the U.S., and the only time I ever heard them say ain't was in jocular contexts or in virtual quotations, like She ain't what she used to be . I must admit that my evidence was entirely impressionistic, but Gove provided no statistical support for his contention, either.

  • Any more pedantic suggestion being absent, I take the bit between the teeth to suggest that the above word, characterized by the OED as an “onomatopoeic representation of unmeaning chatter,” may well be a jocular rendering of Latin Flebiliter gemens , itself an almost facetious lament meaning something like `Woe is me!


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