jokey
/ˈdʒəʊki
/(also joky)
adjective (jokier, jokiest)
Not serious; teasing or humorous: a brief exchange of jokey comments...
- Ryan's whole body tensed up and his jokey, light-hearted aura dissipated in a second.
- ‘The police officer was quite jokey at the end of the conversation, but said I'd have to remove the advert,’ he added.
- Working for opposing stations the two men relished the jokey adversarial relationship they shared - one which continues until today.
Derivatives
jokily
- ‘Sometimes it's quite nice to have him around, actually,’ she says, jokily but with an underlying tenderness.
- Thomas seems an unlikely candidate for what she jokily calls ‘a quarter-life crisis’.
- Bush senior had jokily asked for a seat near the back so that no one would see him crying with emotion.
jokiness
- Byford, a large man whose boyish jokiness can suddenly give way to stern-faced impatience, suddenly grew colder.
- Ten or 15 years ago, this would have been a very different book, full of the referential jokiness of postmodernism.
- Overt jokiness would damage the film's dramatic approach.
Rhymes
- unattended
- unattested
- unattractive
- unattractively
- unattractiveness
- unattributable
- unattributably
- unattributed
- unaudited
- un-Australian
- unauthentic
- unauthentically
- unauthenticated
- unauthorised
- unauthorized
- unavailability
- unavailable
- unavailableness
- unavailing
- unavailingly
- unavenged
- unavoidability
- unavoidable
- unavoidableness
- unavoidably