jocosely
advEtymology From jocose + -ly.
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In a jocose manner.
- Mr. Hurst interrupted, 'to have his name mixed up with shady people, as Ormond says; so, my dear! the long and short of it is, you must refuse her invitation to go there on this visit!' 'But I have accepted it.' 'Unaccept it then,' jocosely.1880, Mrs. Harry Bennett-Edwards, In Sheep's Clothing, volume 2, page 154: