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