in jest
Example Sentences
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I was a fresh-faced high school senior, living out the prime of my teenage youth in an increasingly progressive world where fundamentalist doomsday prophecies were lobbed around in jest.
From Salon • Dec. 21, 2025
It is said in jest, but Hill fancies the chase.
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025
At least Redick said some of his slander is in jest.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2025
“We wanted to see what a ‘real’ cult meeting was like,” she said, I think in jest.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024
It was thus that the other potters, their apprentices, and some of the villagers spoke of Min—usually in jest, but sometimes with derision just below the thin layer of banter in their voices.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
