War and Peace vocabulary

shaking hands with him in a cordial and jocose way, "how am you?"

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)

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spattering them with filth, winking jocosely at them only to justify and conceal one's own rottenness and moral poverty is only possible for a very vain, base, and nasty creature."

Anton Chekhov. The Duel and Other Stories

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[he] stood between the old man who had accosted him jocosely, and now invited him to be his neighbor, and a young peasant, who had only been married in the autumn, and who was mowing this summer for the first time.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)