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[ UK /d‍ʒˈɒlɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor

How To Use jollity In A Sentence

  • Not that I'm denigrating the effort - I'm good for a few quid once I've got a few beers in me later tonight - but the enforced jollity does occasionally grate.
  • There's even more proof in the new duets album: While the pairings add to the jollity Lady Gaga is amazingly likable, and not at all trampy, on "The Lady Is a Tramp", the real attraction is Mr. Bennett himself. Ready for His Autumn Waltz
  • `Forgive me," he said, reverting to his old, professorial jollity. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
  • Note, The end of the sinner's mirth and jollity is heaviness. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • All that fake jollity and enforced contact, not forgetting all those sprouts, has put the relationship under the most intense pressure. Times, Sunday Times
  • The words will be parodied, and the chief effect I expect from them must arise from their being _known_; for the joke will be much less for these jolly fathers to sing any thing new, than to give what the audience are used to annex the idea of jollity to. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01
  • Christmas long ago ceased to be an occasion for carefree jollity.
  • Above all it is the seriousness, the consistent refusal to engage in light banter or jollity, the unflinching Puritanism (as of Elders of the Kirk), indeed the crippling shyness that strike one most forcefully nearly fifty years on. Archive 2009-04-01
  • Even with a language barrier, it was always possible to communicate through smiles and jollity, for the Egyptians have a very wicked sense of humour.
  • Doesn't the false jollity on offer simply make you want to retch?
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