"You were the best one up there," a man said joshingly to the big star of the one-woman show.

And the words invariably flow smoothly, whether joshingly or vitriolically.

As a Cobra spokesman joshingly put it, "Liar, liar, pants on fire."

Now, when Robert assumed his role, we joshingly told him that part of Arcy's job was to write some of our captions.

Detroit and other newspapers joshingly suggested, upon hearing of the behemoth, that Orion residents should 'drink more well water in the future.'"

Uma may wear that demure wimple on her head, but when Robin joshingly says he'll have to give her a lashing, the bold jade asks, "How many strokes?"

A crowd of spectators had gathered to watch the pouring of the walk, mostly neighborhood children but also a few mothers, who had tagged a long "just for the laughs," as one of them joshingly put it.

"So it was only natural that a reporter would ask - not nastily, but a bit joshingly - 'If you decide to run for president, aren't you going to have to spend a little time catching up on some of the national issues?'