jocularly
advEtymology From jocular + -ly.
1
In a jocular manner; humorously.
- He was in such a good mood that he even managed to take out the rubbish jocularly.
- She was not embarrassed at all so she told the story jocularly.
2 more examples
- Sullenly, jocularly, resentfully, or derisively, names and addresses were extorted from the company, and each member given a jerk of the head to get out of this.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 160:
- Owners and physicians also blurred the therapeutic line by referring jocularly to whipping as “medicine” for malingering slaves. One complaining woman was “treated with a cowskin or hickory switch to scourge her”; other doctors recommended that an owner apply “9 drops of essence of rawhide” or “oil of hickory” to the back of a sick slave.2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Southern Discomfort”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 46:
- Synonyms
- humorously, amusingly, jokingly
- Antonyms
- seriously, straight-lacedly