adv. [f. JOCULAR a. + -LY2.] In a jocular manner; jestingly; in joke.
1655. Stanley, Hist. Philos., I. (1701), 42/2. Riddles … which she used jocularly, like Dice upon occasions, only contesting with such as provoked her.
1791. Boswell, Johnson, Oct. 1778. He has sometimes suffered me to talk jocularly of his group of females.
1828. D’Israeli, Chas. I., I. ii. 16. Henry … jocularly placed the Archbishop’s cap on his head.
