"jolly manner" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe someone's cheerful and playful behavior or attitude. For example: - The children were delighted by their teacher's jolly manner and eagerly participated in her class. - Despite the serious topic, the speaker delivered his presentation in a jolly manner, keeping the audience engaged and entertained. - She always greets her coworkers with a smile and a jolly manner, making the office a more enjoyable place to work.
Heavy-footed, unnuanced, burping, yerping Wally may have reminded Sally that she had unfinished business in the last century and couldn't reason it away in the jolly manner in which I'd reasoned myself into a late-in-life marriage and lived happily by its easy-does-it house rules.
Mahima, Domestic Worker "If I come to work, everyone here talks nicely to me and I can share my feelings with them and people crack jokes and spend time in a very jolly manner so I get a feeling that if I come to work I can forget a few bad things which have happened in my life and be happy for sometime at least.
M. Piaget's table companion, Baroness W. Langer von Langerdorff, a large woman, with foot-high flaming-red hair and brightly rouged cheeks, regarded the centerpiece with a jolly, tolerant manner.
"Because mathematics is so central to how we think about the world, physicists often are speaking a different language than biologists, asking different questions," said Dr. Bialek, his impish, abstractedly cerebral face and full, free-wheeling beard giving him something of a jolly professor manner.
In cultured primary CD4+ T cells, Vpu-defective viruses have even been observed to spread faster through the culture in a tetherin-dependent manner (Jolly et al., 2010).
Her radio manner was jolly rather than sultry.
Happily, they're currently starring in their own BBC TV series, but this book features them in earlier years, as they set up their own detective agency and solve a series of jolly crimes in the manner of their favourite fictional detectives.
Hearty naval commanders or jolly colonels acquired the 'camp' manners of calling everything from Joan of Arc to Merlin 'lots of fun', and the adjective 'terribly' peppered every sentence".
Mealtimes are jolly, but don't expect normal table manners.
Mealtimes are jolly and convivial, but, of course, don't expect normal table manners.
This did not stop many Iraqis, believing that the timing and manner of their death is anyway preordained, crowding into Baghdad's gleaming new shopping malls and jolly amusement parks when sunset heralded the end of the day's fast.
