Jovially [adverb]

He is of course joking, but this is not obvious, because even when Mitch is in a jovial mood he looks like a man passing a kidney stone the size of the Hope Diamond.

"I'll tell you what I think," said Buck, getting up jovially.

As a writer jovially remarked, "It is a gilt-edged real estate investment."

Whereupon he would exert himself with renewed diligence in her garden, which he jovially called "hoeing Aunt Rosalie's will."

It was his familiar flourish, an old story to Bibbs, and now jovially declaimed for the edification of Mary Vertrees.

My wife will be some surprised, I bet, and he laughed jovially.

"Fifteen an' a kick a week, an' cheap at 'alf the price," he added jovially.

They are easily furnished; get something and spend it jovially and merrily.

He greets her jovially and starts to walk hand in hand with her.

The collection of ash-trays and bowls surrounding Mr. Chesterton had become jovially freighted with tobacco ash and cigar ends.