joviality
jovialty

He has made a show of joviality in the past few days.

He was silent a moment, no joviality at all in his bright blue eyes.

Despite this man's air of joviality, he could be ruthless.

' He tried to force the joviality that was usually so easy.

"All about Africa and everything," said the father with false joviality.

Usually it's a place for joviality, but we all knew what was ahead of us."

I lay there for a time, hearing the joviality of the men on the bar.

For all his joviality he was thinking very hard.

The joviality he showed when she first stepped into his office was quickly disappearing.

Rather soon it became clear that the captain's apparent joviality was a surface thing.

The atmosphere, in the room no longer had even the semblance of joviality.

Not much, he thought with his own brand of gallows joviality.

There was a moment's uneasy silence in which the joviality faded away.

His joviality was a little forced, and his eyes were still cold.

Maura's voice had lost its joviality now and she sounded annoyed.

This remark sobered the father's joviality, and brought his mind to business.

It sickened me to see such joviality after what had been done to Abby.

But her joviality, Fred felt, was an asset, and ought to be developed.

But his joviality was fake and Sachs heard just impatience.

From within the house came continued noises of gayety and high joviality.

"No pain," he said with half a laugh, strained joviality.

Morrison said with what was almost joviality, "Anxious to get rid of me?"

On my arrival, he greeted me with an air of mournful joviality.

But for many scholars, the joviality sprang from a sense of obstacles overcome.

There was none of the typical joviality in the ops officer's face.