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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of jest.

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Examples

  • We laughed and jested lightly enough, as about us jostled the merry throng; but under our jesting was the deep earnestness of man and woman well advanced across the threshold of love and yet not too sure each of the other.

    Chapter 11 2010

  • "Some people would say that killing Cheryl Cole would be a good thing," jested Courtenay.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • And the US financial industry is number 41 (?) on some list ... past Namibia .... "your money is safer in Namibia than in the US," he jested.

    Page 4 2008

  • And the US financial industry is number 41 (?) on some list ... past Namibia .... "your money is safer in Namibia than in the US," he jested.

    Page 4 2008

  • And the US financial industry is number 41 (?) on some list ... past Namibia .... "your money is safer in Namibia than in the US," he jested.

    Page 4 2008

  • And the US financial industry is number 41 (?) on some list ... past Namibia .... "your money is safer in Namibia than in the US," he jested.

    Page 4 2008

  • And I believe we should break as many of them as possible, India jested.

    One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010

  • And the US financial industry is number 41 (?) on some list ... past Namibia .... "your money is safer in Namibia than in the US," he jested.

    Page 4 2008

  • And David Rudd of Muskegon, MI, jested: "this just in: jim joyce called koman coulibaly to offer some advice about owning mistakes. the Malian ref red-carded him, without saying why."

    Tom Pfingsten: What Koman Coulibaly's Blown Call Says About Us 2010

  • And the US financial industry is number 41 (?) on some list ... past Namibia .... "your money is safer in Namibia than in the US," he jested.

    Page 4 2008

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