Playful and characterized by jokes.
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Examples for "jesting "
Examples for "jesting "
1 She is jesting : I have it here; Monsieur, the feint is useless.
2 You know that I am not jesting ; I mean what I say.
3 Somehow or other, I no longer felt in the mood for jesting .
4 You are only jesting , sir; I should be ashamed to take it.
5 Often of a morning Babbitt came bouncing and jesting in to breakfast.
1 The jocular tone made it clear the words were not a barb.
2 I saw through his jocular exterior in several ways after his diagnosis.
3 Ms Boaden argued: Most of their comments were jocular or light-hearted banter.
4 Harry is known primarily for inheriting the jocular racism of his grandfather.
5 The old genius was as jocular as the young one was pleasant.
1 Fortunately, the Crows were in a jocose , rather than a sanguinary mood.
2 And also it offers people a chance to be jocose with facility.
3 He even, as time passed, became in a sardonic fashion almost jocose .
4 Indeed, one newspaper diarist wrote a jocose , rather knowing remark about it.
5 Surveying himself complacently in the glass, it pleased Mr. Toomey to be jocose .
1 I know that manufacturers often make claims about their products' jokey personifications.
2 The jaunty music appears to be pointing us in a jokey direction.
3 They had a tradition of writing each other jokey verse to celebrate.
4 Mike's face changed from being open and jokey to hardened and guarded.
5 Another faux pas: using the captions as a place to add jokey commentary.
1 Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky , hoky-poky lad, is the Ocean, oh!
2 You're the kind of a lively, joky fellow I like.
3 Or that Uber has collated data from its customers' habits to calculate a joky tabulation of their one-night stands.
4 You have not heard me say a word about her dear loving mother and her big joky father, have you?
5 Osama bin Laden was a vaguely joky figure whom certain alarmists in the US intelligence community were taking seriously, but for no particular reason.
1 And worrying. She is joking , but her words are also deadly serious.
2 There was a great deal of laughing and joking during the meal.
3 The children couldn't quite make out whether he was joking or not.
4 Stormgren had often found it difficult to tell when Karellen was joking .
5 Doctor Percival squeezed his arm and said, 'I was only joking , Davis.
6 So, they had a wonderful time, laughing and joking all the way.
7 But look, I was only joking about not being able to read.
8 Some fund managers emailed to ask if he was joking , he recalled.
9 A joking and smiling Coetzee told reporters that he finally felt free.
10 They know I'm joking . Brady was all business on the field, though.
11 We have a good relationship and are always joking with each other.
12 She stared at him, uncertain whether he was joking , serious, or delirious.
13 You are joking on the edge of your grave, my young friend.
14 Unfortunately, she was not joking - she has moved back to Dublin.
15 Science is a serious endeavour, but there's room for joking around too.
16 I was only joking ; personally I hate people who tell long stories.
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