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Given to joking or expressed in a joking manner.
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- jocose remark
- jocose manner
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A jocose remark eased the silence.
He adopted a jocose manner despite the delay.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more jocose; superlative most jocose where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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