Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a joking manner; in a merry way.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a joking way; sportively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
joking manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in jest
- adverb not seriously
Etymologies
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Examples
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Instead, Jackson used the term jokingly to describe a false report that EPA planned to add some 230,000 new regulators.
USATODAY.com News 2011
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We have what we call jokingly, the Butter Knife Brigades and I will mention this again.
Not Bisexual D'Epiro, Peter 2001
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Sterne was a village vicar in the Church of England for about twenty-two years; The Sermons of Mr. Yorick are his own Mr. Yorick is a character in Tristram Shandy, distantly related to Hamlet's Yorick; Sterne applies the name jokingly to himself. posted by Brandon | 12:57 PM
Archive 2005-03-01 2005
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Sterne was a village vicar in the Church of England for about twenty-two years; The Sermons of Mr. Yorick are his own Mr. Yorick is a character in Tristram Shandy, distantly related to Hamlet's Yorick; Sterne applies the name jokingly to himself. posted by Brandon | 12:57 PM
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"Look out one of the sea gulls doesn't take you for a bite of breakfast," he called jokingly after him.
Sunny Boy in the Big City Ramy Allison White 1916
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This was a place of great memory for the man and his family, a place he called jokingly
NY Daily News Bill Gallo 2010
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This was a place of great memory for the man and his family, a place he called jokingly
NY Daily News Bill Gallo 2010
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This was a place of great memory for the man and his family, a place he called jokingly
NY Daily News Bill Gallo 2010
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This was a place of great memory for the man and his family, a place he called jokingly
NY Daily News Bill Gallo 2010
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This was a place of great memory for the man and his family, a place he called jokingly
NY Daily News Bill Gallo 2010
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