jocular

She pulled away from him and tried to make her voice jocular.

A short pause, and a different, more jocular voice came on the line.

At that very moment a deep, rich jocular voice was heard.

They had no answer to what he said, and certainly nothing to say to his jocular tone.

"Or should I say, a way of writing about the country in a jocular manner."

"And no one said anything to me about it other than something sympathetic or jocular."

His jocular tones were the first to be heard on the station.

Most times these references to his age or status were jocular.

He included a number of jocular references to the 1960 original.

But the two are sounding positively jocular about their new relationship.

His voice was jocular and Kate found herself laughing with him.

He gave her a jocular grin and scratched the side of his face.

But his jocular style has made him popular enough that he is invited to play all over the city.

I asked in a jocular tone, hoping to break her mood.

When he did so, his tone was oblique and jocular.

Another would be jocular in tone, slapping you on the back, so to speak.

The performance had you convinced that there was real substance to this jocular early work.

The voice on the tapes is by turns jocular and analytic.

The jocular tone made it clear the words were not a barb.

In a more jocular vein, he explained his position to Churchill.

The jocular bartender appears to know half the customers who come in - another good sign.

The soldier answers in what he means to be a jocular manner, "Only if you live."

His tone, rather jocular in the early letters, becomes more relaxed.

Our jocular waiter sometimes crossed the line from friendly to familiar.

"You carry some of these," he said to Bobby, turning jocular.