Synonym: cheerful, gleeful, jovial, joyful, merry, pleasant. Antonym: gloomy, melancholy. Similar words: folly, dolly, jolt, cajole, shilly-shally, dilly-dally, willy-nilly, loll. Meaning: ['dʒɑlɪ /'dʒɒl-] n. 1. a happy party 2. a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work. v. be silly or tease one another. adj. full of or showing high-spirited merriment. adv. used as an intensifier (`jolly' is used informally in Britain).
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31. I thought I'd jolly the room up with some colourful curtains.
32. She didn't really want to go to the party, so we had to jolly her along a bit.
33. In other words, a jolly good booze-up.
34. I think bathing is jolly good f-fun.
35. He would have been a jolly good permanent secretary.
36. Peter Webster, forty-seven, is a jaunty, jolly fellow.
37. They all made a jolly family.
38. For he's a jolly good Weller Duh!
39. The word "jolly" often connotes that someone is fat.
40. That's a jolly good idea.
41. All good friends and jolly good company.
42. Whatever(sentencedict .com), he did a jolly good job.
43. Sue was always jolly and helpful.
44. She saw herself as such a jolly little girl.
45. And we did have some jolly evenings.
46. She tried to jolly herself into enthusiasm.
47. Corstorphine Inn A jolly place for beers and skittles.
48. The new jolly lambs Are pleased with their nursery.
49. The canteen was jolly good value.
50. And charge they jolly well did.
51. But a nice young man who wanted a bit of chivvying from a jolly girl-friend.
52. Now it would command television crews, gangs of itinerant Press men and jolly serious ball by ball radio commentary.
53. Where Ken wanted to jolly the world along, Bernard wanted to push it and shove it for its own good.
54. It was such a jolly little lighthouse, white, and standing at the very end of a promontory.
55. Same old jolly camp-fire life went on as per usual.
56. After Anaximenes came some one jolly, scoffing, and yet profound: the philosopher-poet Xenopha-nes.
57. He's a jolly soul.
58. A flushed and jolly character raises his glass among friends and family - how real, how reliable is that evidence?
59. Bruch painted a psychological portrait of the obese that contrasted sharply with the image of the jolly fat person.
60. Once upon a time there was a film with a jolly popular song, sung as a duet.