How to Use jokey in a Sentence

jokey

adjective

• 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.
  — Will Leitch, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024
• 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