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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jocoseness
Noun
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England have shown a certain flippancy towards white-ball cricket since winning the 2019 World Cup.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025 -
SpaceX could afford its flippancy on X because the company has always operated with a fly-fast, fail-fast, fly-again metabolism.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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There are no gilded gates here, but there is one heck of a party, complete with serenading busts, ballroom dancers, excitable opera singers, drunken buffoonery and portraits locked in an endless duel.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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What’s so special about Britain’s patron wanker of bighearted buffoonery?—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Six years of handmade work: puppets, animatronics, matte paintings, and a bit of 3D animation.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
28 Feb. 2025
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The series has since become a cornerstone of Two Daughters Entertainment’s growing animation portfolio.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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His coy narrative voice and audacious insouciance, thinly disguised under a patina of classical Oxford education and self-deprecating wit, amuse the reader for several hundred pages.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Jan. 2025
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The theme’s implicit insouciance becomes perplexing when accompanied by scientific studies and even a World Health Organization report touting the healing properties of art.—
Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The low-profile scissor keys feel nice to type on, and there's a convenient shortcut row for functions like volume, screen brightness, emoji, and more.—
Julian Chokkattu,
WIRED,
28 Feb. 2025
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The golden yellow hue injects energy and brightness to entryways, kitchens, and social spaces, and layering it with the cool, crisp white hue makes for a fresh and airy color scheme perfect for spring.—
Maria Sabella,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 Feb. 2025
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Because speaking of vivacity, and of big fat fibbers, Henry IV’s titular monarch is hardly the only reigning energy in the play.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
12 Feb. 2025
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Brandee Evans portrays the mourned Tammy with an easy vivacity (one that invites viewers to miss her as well).—
Lisa Kennedy,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Jocoseness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jocoseness. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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