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- adverb In a
jestful manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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
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Some prophecies, jestfully uttered, are fulfilled -- so were those of
The Wedding Guest 1847
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What I somewhat jestfully refer to as the nation of "Generiqua" - a cloud of useless opinions - has happened to me too.
Torley Torley 2010
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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
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