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• He was in a jocular mood all day.
• All we had was a short and jocular conversation.
• From the tone of the speaker, the last words might be understood to be jocular.
• Sometimes he would notice it, pat it, call it half-mocking, half-jocular names, and so make it caper with extraordinary delight.
• Then papa began to get very tired of Jones, and fidgeted and finally said, with jocular irony, that Jones had better stay all night, they could give him a shake-down.
• Quelquefois celui-ci le remarquait, le caressait, lui donnant des noms mi-moqueurs, mi-plaisants, et alors il cabriolait avec une extraordinaire satisfaction