Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Given to jesting; playful: as, a jesting humor.
- Fit for joking; proper to be joked about.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or practice of making jests; joking; pleasantry.
- adjective Sportive; not serious; fit for jests.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
joking - noun
bantering ;ridicule - noun
mocking - adjective
facetious - adjective
humorous - adjective
playful ;mocking - adjective
jeering - verb Present participle of
jest .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by jokes and good humor
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Examples
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However, this jesting is written by people who really know their Canadiana.
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And he does not know that yesterday was a day of purposely prepared rack and thumbscrew, whereby he was justly tortured for his guilt in jesting about Tib's avoirdupoise-weight; but he knows how he missed her all day, and how essential she is to his very existence.
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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.
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But my jesting should be a source of concern, experts say.
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But my jesting should be a source of concern, experts say.
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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.
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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.
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When they're all together, they patter back and forth in the kind of jesting, referential language that can only pass between people who have spent their whole lives together.
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‘There is a sort of jesting which is very much in earnest, and includes some pretty serious disgust,’ said Martin.
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Plutarch hath almost made a book of the Lacedaemonian kind of jesting, which joined ever pleasure with distaste.
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