Definition of “jocular”

"Come on," she said, attempting a jocular manner that she hoped masked her anxiety, "who is it?

But Obasanjo today brims with jocular charm, and has shrewdly endowed himself with a statesman's mantle.

He left them jocular notes, identifying himself as "Lone Wolf, The People's Champion".

He was visibly jocular at training on Monday despite being at the helm of the Bears in the most important week of their history.

Kenworthy did his best to suggest in jocular fashion that he was relieved to be in the clear, but he stemmed her efforts to pry for details.

The cautious part of him feared a jocular response from Bridget -- and caution is often a sound guide.

The weather of Candlemas and Beltane days received particular attention, and even yet one hears it referred to in a jocular manner:

When he stepped up the plate, a jocular Deschamps would egg on the pitcher to hit him in his "bad leg.