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- adjective
superlative form ofjolly : mostjolly .
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Examples
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Lord Freddie agrees with me that a hansom is the jolliest kind of vehicle: please don't frown at me, Lady Willow -- "jolliest" is Lord
A Woman Intervenes Robert Barr 1881
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I was a Marine, and they told me I could be one of the jolliest green giants around.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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She was “the jolliest girl on land and sea,” he said, and “the only Communist with a sense of humor.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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• The weirdest, yet one of the jolliest, parties was thrown by the government of Bermuda.
What David Cameron said to Steve Bell Simon Hoggart 2010
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His tone is full but flexible, sustained but lyrical, and he manages to impart a certain wistfulness to even the jolliest rondos, such as the E flat one that Flanders and Swann memorably set to words.
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She was “the jolliest girl on land and sea,” he said, and “the only Communist with a sense of humor.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Santa wasn't exactly at his jolliest at a store in Chicago's Lake View neighborhood last Friday.
Drunk Santa Kicks Cop In The Shins Will Guzzardi 2010
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Santa wasn't exactly at his jolliest at a store in Chicago's Lake View neighborhood last Friday.
Drunk Santa Kicks Cop In The Shins Will Guzzardi 2010
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The jolliest person present, as well as the most important, was of course old Santa Claus; so he was given the seat of honor at one end of the table while at the other end sat Princess Ozma, the hostess.
Love Letters 2010
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Santa wasn't exactly at his jolliest at a store in Chicago's Lake View neighborhood last Friday.
Drunk Santa Kicks Cop In The Shins Will Guzzardi 2010
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