How to Use jokey in a Sentence

jokey

adjective
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  • McGill: Joe felt Fred Gwynne was quite jokey as the judge.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2022
  • And even though there are many jokes in there, none of them are jokey.
    — Jane Greenway Carr, CNN, 17 July 2022
  • So while that appears to have been more on the jokey side, the two have kept up the public flirtation.
    — Fox News, 29 May 2018
  • Some of these new books were jokey satires aimed more at parents than children.
    — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
  • This episode is so jokey that Noel Fielding has to assume the nerd persona and keep the quiz moving.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2022
  • CivilWar2 had already been around for a while, appended to far less jokey tweets.
    — Wired, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The film gets in on the MCU act with a jokey mid-credits sequence and then a more dramatic one at the very end, opening the door to a sequel.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2022
  • The actor also spoke about the clan’s jokey dynamic with ET Canada last month.
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2023
  • But two squawking, sashaying hookers who pick up Rusty just to hang out with him are jokey Times Square cliches circa the 1980s.
    — Misha Berson, Variety, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Faced with a flood of upset users, Google claimed that those holidays were too reverent for the jokey nature of a doodle.
    — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Another faux pas: using the captions as a place to add jokey commentary.
    — Wired, 1 Oct. 2019
  • One designed to be a jokey conversation piece, though at least half the joke is the title, which is so hilariously basic, so 1980s-meets-Tik-Tok, so balls-out-and-in-your-face.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Only the jokey homoerotic banter stamps it as typical of Mr. Ritchie’s work.
    — Kyle Smith, wsj.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Here’s hoping this overly jokey nonsense is Shazam’s last outing.
    — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • This is a straight-up revenge saga, with Statham as a father out to wreak havoc on the men who killed his teenage son, and the movie, after a jokey stage-setting intro, mostly eschews Ritchie’s usual quips and one-liners.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 May 2021
  • The announcement spurred lots of jokey jabs on Twitter (did Jeff Bezos accidentally buy the grocer while trying to order groceries via Alexa?), as well as lots of speculation.
    — Anna Marum, OregonLive.com, 16 June 2017
  • More Stories The point of an official emcee, who introduces an awards show with a long, jokey monologue and then occasionally bursts in to pep things up throughout the night, was much debated earlier this year.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2019
  • His bluff, sometimes bombastic and often jokey manner — tolerated or even enjoyed during easeful times — has not helped him as the U.K. threatens to start unraveling at the seams.
    — Christina Boyle, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2021
  • Originally released in 2013, the song benefits from a choreographed dance trend, as well as other general, often jokey posts including its lyrics.
    — Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 7 Mar. 2024
  • What started largely as a jokey way to send season’s greetings to friends and family and promote their video-production business became a viral sensation, racking up more than 18 million views to date on YouTube.
    — Charles Passy, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2020
  • This group's playful, jokey dynamic will absolutely remind you of Sam Malone and his loyal customers on Cheers in a comfortable, nostalgic way.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2019
  • Lennon veers between being sarcastically jokey and seeming to crave attention, as his companion, Yoko Ono, sits next to him, mostly staying quiet.
    — oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2021
  • But making the character just a nuttier version of a jokey Australian male stereotype also robs him of the dimensionality that any villain who’s going to support Miller’s reach for mythic proportions would seem to require.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2024
  • Other barricades also received whimsical or jokey names.
    — oregonlive, 4 May 2020
  • The narrative shifts to his dogged investigation and occasionally jokey interactions with an almost palpable sense of relief, compared to the dread overhanging Russell and Maben’s chapters.
    — Atlanta Life, ajc, 30 Mar. 2017

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