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jokily adverb uk /ˈdʒəʊ.kəl.i/ us /ˈdʒoʊ.kəl.i/ in a way that shows you are not serious: The pet names the band use for her are jokily star struck. She jokily warned them: "If you're not careful I'll leave the country." Related word
jokey I was asked to write a chapter for a book, and I jokily emailed to say my fee would be £10,000. She delighted viewers by jokily asking one of the judges for a date. One visitor jokily described hearing a creaky noise on a windless night. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Humour & humorous amusingly bitingly blackly bone dryidiom bring drily gag geddit? GSOH jocose lightly non-serious pawky photobomb photobombing playfully rib standing joke wag wisecrack |