Sentence examples for to be jocular from inspiring English sources

Mora said that he understood that the comment was meant to be jocular.

Well, he said, it was meant to be "jocular [and] ironic", and I believe him.

He subsequently apologised for the comments – made at a conference in South Korea – saying they had been intended to be jocular and ironic, but said he was told that if he did not resign his position at UCL he would be sacked.

He subsequently apologised for the comments – made at a conference in South Korea – saying they had been intended to be jocular and ironic, but said he was told that if he did not resign his position at University College London he would be sacked.

However, subsequent investigations suggested Hunt had intended his remarks to be jocular, and many of the claims of St Louis – who runs a postgraduate course in science journalism at City University London – about her own professional credentials were called into question.

But the ads, which were plainly designed to be jocular, appear to have backfired.

He could be jocular and also impatient.

In a 2005 interview, Bathurst recalls that the threat seemed not to be entirely jocular.

As Bathurst went into the audition room, his colleague was leaving, and told Bathurst he would "break his legs" if he got the part, a threat that seemed not to be "entirely jocular".

On set, Logan asked: "Have you read my play yet?" And when Whishaw eventually did, he was "moved" because: "I didn't know their story or how desperately sad their lives had been". Up to that point, his acquaintance with Peter Pan had been jocular, courtesy of Disney and the local pantomime in Langford, the Bedfordshire village where he grew up (he played John).

He was jocular but cold and arrogant and prone to flattery.