jesting
Example Sentences
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Jesting friends of Governor Morley took pot shots at the prison searchlight, exploded mammoth firecrackers before the prison door.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jesting or not, the only thing new in the notion is the hyperbole.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jesting apart, I feel that she and I will suit—on ne peut mieux.
From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte
Jesting at himself he defined 'lexicographer' as 'a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.'
From A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington
Jesting, too, for Colvin had touched on the comic element, not forgetting to entertain Mynheer with the joke about old Tant’ Plessis and Calvinus.
From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Mitford, Bertram
