How to use Jokey in a sentence

jokey

  • Admittedly he's a fairly jokey astrologer, .. .

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  • I was worried that the book would be too jokey and informal, but the writing style is great.

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  • Because it's quite jokey at home - " Oh, you're in a band?

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  • The tone is often jokey, even slightly condescending.

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  • Tolkien cleverly uses the construct of Bilbo's 'eleventy-first' birthday party bash to transition the tone, from the avucular jokey one he used in The Hobbit, to one more appropriate for the telling of an Epic High Fantasy Quest.

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