What's the difference between jocularity and jollity?
Jocularity
Definition:
(n.) Jesting; merriment.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the contest meandered and the stadium went close to quiet there was a jocular moment when Pardew hopped in irritation at a United challenge and the manager dropped his ever-present notebook on the pitch.
(2) The tone was jocular, but the intent deadly serious, as becomes clear talking to Jón and Einar Örn Benediktsson, who used to sing alongside Björk in the Sugarcubes and is now Reykjavik's head of culture and tourism.
(3) You kindly suggested that it would be helpful if I put them in writing – despite the Freedom of Information Act!” A jocular reference?
(4) Welby, who was enthroned as a bishop last November, presented a jocular, relaxed face to the press as he appeared for the first time at Lambeth Palace, surrounded by the portraits of archbishops past.
(5) At this time I can’t say anything about transfers,” he said before turning jocular.
(6) The cast of The Five vacillated between feigned solemnity and jocular NFL pregame oafishness.
(7) Until now, the answer would have been for Network Rail to simply borrow: its spending on the never-never has largely escaped public attention, despite the industry jocularly speaking of the "Network Rail credit card".
(8) Alito was not amused by Kagan’s jocular stand for precedent, and declared the original Brulotte “a bald act of policymaking”.
(9) The tone was jocular, but the president’s words on Friday betrayed mounting frustration with opponents in his own party who could derail perhaps the biggest domestic policy goal of his last two years in office.
(10) The auteur that's matched Malick for headlines this year, Lars von Trier, banned by the festival's board of directors after mounting a jocular defence of Adolf Hitler in an official press conference, was given a consolation prize of sorts when Kirsten Dunst picked up the award for best actress for her part in Melancholia.
(11) Poroshenko’s treatment in Washington will also invite comparison to Trump’s warm and jocular Oval Office meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and Moscow’s ambassador to Washington, Sergey Kislyak, on May 10, the day after firing the FBI director, James Comey.
(12) An overjoyed Mark Sampson was in jocular mood after his England side reached a significant milestone in their history, posting their first knockout stage victory in any World Cup finals with a 2-1 win over Norway in Ottawa.
(13) Catch it on one of the 300-odd UK screens it opened across yesterday, and witness a jocular salute to the redemptive power of youth, rebellion and getting fucked-up.
(14) Although schizoaffective manic patients resembled manics in their tendency to show combinatory thinking, their productions lacked the jocularity of the manics.
(15) It all sounds too easy, a bit jocular, there's more assertion than proof.
(16) Derived from The Wizard of Oz , the term "friend of Dorothy" (or FOD) was for many years a carefully guarded euphemism in homosexual circles, until in the 1980s it began to be used openly and jocularly.
(17) Last summer he described his development as a writer in a typically jocular column for the Guardian Review book club, which featured the first of his Culture novels, Use of Weapons.
(18) Trust in John Whittingdale, the culture secretary, has not been bolstered by jocular remarks envisaging the BBC’s demise as “a tempting prospect” .
(19) Corbyn will face May at prime minister’s questions in the House of Commons for the first time on Wednesday, and said he expected it to be a less jocular affair than under David Cameron.
(20) Indeed in the course of a single phone call he would veer alarmingly from bonhomie, to bullying, to pleading and then back to a jocular mood.
(1) The failure to bring Biggs home and the subsequent jollity that the "slip-up" afforded the media continued to rankle.
(2) If festive jollity has been in short supply in the Hughes household, it was completely absent from the dugout and the deposed manager absented himself from the press conference afterwards.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Beneath any jollity there is a foundation of fury.
(4) How much of her jollity and relative straightforwardness is an act?
(5) He said the BBC's intention on the Sunday of the jubilee weekend, the day of the river pageant, had been to "broaden the range of voices and having some fun and games and jollity as well".
(6) I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.
(7) "What I would say is we were trying to simultaneously reflect both the pomp and circumstance, the history and the heritage, but also particularly the Sunday was intended as the people's element of this, which meant we were absolutely broadening the range of voices and having some fun and games and jollity as well."
(8) But beneath any jollity there is a foundation of fury.
(9) But 99% of the time, the balance between grit and jollity was struck perfectly.
(10) At the moment cheerleaders The Crystals are keeping the crowd entertained, along with their partner in pre-match jollity, Kayla the eagle.
(11) So it shouldn’t be jollity all the way in Dominic Hill’s revival, but expect the ghosts to be genuinely spooky and Ebenezer Scrooge to be particularly miserly.