variants
or less commonly joky
jokier; jokiest
Examples of jokey in a Sentence
the jokey tone of his stories
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Runquist’s Letterboxd posts tend to amount to a few jokey words.
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2025
Not to say there aren’t some clunkers, most notably a jokey take-me-out-to-the-ballgame baseball number that pads the second act, but the Flaherty-Ahrens score was and is Ragtime‘s signature achievement.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
There is nothing funny about the film’s jokey title, which is just a strained metaphor.
—Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025
Despite more complicated challenges, the cast are as jokey and jovial as ever.
—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2025
Not to say there aren’t some clunkers, most notably a jokey take-me-out-to-the-ballgame baseball number that pads the second act, but the Flaherty-Ahrens score was and is Ragtime‘s signature achievement.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025
There is nothing funny about the film’s jokey title, which is just a strained metaphor.
—Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025
Despite more complicated challenges, the cast are as jokey and jovial as ever.
—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for jokey
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“Jokey.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jokey. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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