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Runquist’s Letterboxd posts tend to amount to a few jokey words.—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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