jest

The surly, brilliant, hip, fashionable Davis aspired to many things, but sainthood, even in jest, was not one of them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

People will tell you who they are regardless, even and especially in jest.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 8, 2026

He even managed to get a more current jest in, teasing the group of young cadets with a “six-seven” joke about making good choices.

From Salon ● May 24, 2026

“I highly recommend not going to the bathroom during the performance,” co-founder Calla Henkel warned the crowd, half in jest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025

“Any one a-them names on a postmark would bore me to death, jest like Commerce does. They say a Englishman come th’ew Harmony Grove in nineteen aught-one, sellin’ silverware.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

Keyes jests: "Manhattan is no place for the weak or the young. You need a bucket of B vitamins to live there!"

From BBC ● May 26, 2024

“Eliahna was a master of jests and loved making people laugh.”

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2022

Her family called her “a master of jests who loved making people laugh” but who was also “nurturing and always putting others before herself,” according to her obituary.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2022

Jesse Jan Driessen jests that a big part of coping with distance in a relationship has been accepting that being in lockdown means a lot of mundane conversation.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2021

Khal Drogo shouted commands and jests down to his bloodriders, and laughed at their replies, but he scarcely glanced at Dany beside him.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Captain Andy Robertson jested his team-mate was just seeking attention, not that he'd be short of it.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

“Omg!!! Love the new open toed shoes,” former Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon jested.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2024

Released exclusively to his Instagram page, Lamar in "6:16 in LA" jested at Drake's tendency to title his tracks after times and places.

From Salon ● May 7, 2024

Speaker Rep. Joanna McClinton, a Democrat from Philadelphia County, jested, “Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate” - echoing the lyrics of Swift’s track “Shake It Off.”

From Washington Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

The suitors were now watching him, and some jested among themselves: “A bow lover!”

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Hamish says there is no excuse for anything beyond light-hearted jesting.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Stewart exclaimed, before leaning into the bit by putting on his glasses and jesting, "Sorry, I didn't mean to say that. That was in my teleprompter. I apologize."

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2024

“Some of you may know me as Kelly Bundy from ‘Married With Children,’” she continued, jesting that the audience didn’t need to applaud every time she does something.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2024

If all this jesting and jousting about historically documented misogyny, maternal misery and decapitation isn’t your goblet of grog after a while, “Six” smartly pivots in the final wife’s number, “I Don’t Need Your Love.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023

It was the only logical explanation; she must have misunderstood the true meaning of the conversation, for she was not used to grown men jesting with one another in such a free and sportive way.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood