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  • adverb In a jestful manner.

Etymologies

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jestful +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • You want to know something really, really sad: looking back on that post, I feel like I was the one who brought all this on, because I jestfully pointed out to Cedarford that he had not said something anti-Jewish.

    "Ann Althouse sure has a lot of anti-semitic commenters." Ann Althouse 2009

  • It occurred to him then that nearly all his journalistic life he had been writing at one time and another, "You ought to be ashamed of yourself" -- jestfully, of course.

    Idle Comments 1905

  • Some prophecies, jestfully uttered, are fulfilled -- so were those of

    The Wedding Guest 1847

  • What I somewhat jestfully refer to as the nation of "Generiqua" - a cloud of useless opinions - has happened to me too.

    Torley Torley 2010

  • Rocco Rossi emerged as the crowd favourite by jestfully questioning the financial viability of plans for the $4.6 billion, city-spanning light-rail line in light of

    Transit Toronto - Weblog 2010

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