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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61. But the horse is used to being brushed, or he jolly well should be!
62. Climb to the summit of even an inaccessible peak and you will find a jolly picnic party already up there before you.
63. They also have the best hymns, good old jolly tunes.
64. Only in Britain could the Jolly Griddle chain not only survive but prosper.
65. I think these bureaucrats have a jolly good time at the taxpayer's expense.
66. What a jolly afternoon we were going to have, nosing round people's dripping wet yuk.
67. Say that it's quite nippy, and jolly safe when overtaking.
68. I would like to recommend it to both sexes as a jolly exciting read.
69. Why had he turned so jolly all of a sudden? Sentencedict.com
70. Are you a jolly person; do you have a good sense of humour?
71. He claimed he hadn't any but he jolly well had!
72. To me he was little more than a jolly stranger with a funny way of talking.
73. He had a mountain to climb and he was jolly well going to reach the top or die in the attempt.
74. My uncle was a jolly man with a loud laugh.
75. The Jolly Judge has some interesting old beams and painted murals.
76. As they passed her table, she heard the older woman counting one-two-three, one-two-three like a jolly and exasperated gym teacher.
77. I mean, would you jolly well put money into this place?
78. And if you have what it takes and can stand the pace, a jolly good salary.
79. And if he hasn't changed his sheets by now, he jolly well ought to have done.
80. She heard a jolly male voice saying, Something something something means Lots and lots of chocolate beans.
81. There had been eight of them, a jolly, rowdy party in the respectable Southsea restaurant.
82. If you were in my ward, the first thing you'd get would be a jolly good haircut.
83. Brisk neon routines jolly the cityscape, like the desk-toys of businessmen.
84. There are quite a lot of photographs left showing jolly parties packed in boats riding up the lift.
85. Arthur was their best man and there were jolly pictures of the wedding in the papers.
86. He told me he was called Willie, but I though that was a jolly awful thing to do to anyone.
87. A round, plump, jolly, brown face that he remembered from back last summer, when all this business started.
88. If Jolly Sensible was a restaurant, everyone would be speculating about what went on in the basement.
89. The innovation stirred the ashram to mirth and jolly comment.
90. The trailer had belonged to Mrs Jolly, the woman who sold us the property.