Jolly
Jolly adjective - Giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses.
Usage example: we always have a jolly time at their seaside cottage
Pleasant is a synonym for jolly in feeling topic. In some cases you can use "Pleasant" instead an adjective "Jolly", when it comes to topics like merry, laughing.
Nearby Word: jollying
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Rather pleasant and jolly, in front of all your family and friends.
Source: Initiation Ceremony -
Laughing Mad: Although John Call as Santa is generally an unassuming, pleasant fellow, his laughter sounds more like a man undergoing a frenzied psychotic breakdown than a jolly old elf.
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In Cube Zero, Jax behaves like a jolly enforcer of the sinister government and maintains a pleasant but scornful demeanor while he murders people and hunts down his human lab rats.
Source: Faux Affably Evil
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