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jokingly

adverb as in humorously

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In true diva fashion, Carey jokingly threw some shade at the music show for previous snubs as she received the award from Grande.

Local media quoted eyewitnesses as saying a man jokingly proposed marriage to the vendor, and her response was considered blasphemous by some people in the area.

From BBC

But now, she says, she is "excited about the next phase" of her life which she jokingly refers to as her "delayed adolescence".

From BBC

One is a left-wing advocate of multi-culturalism, the other a conservative who has, albeit jokingly, referred to the UK as "the first truly Islamist country" with a nuclear bomb.

From BBC

Some people also jokingly compared it to Silence of the Lambs' villain Hannibal Lecter's restraint mask.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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