jesting

IPA: dʒˈɛstɪŋ

noun

  • joking
  • bantering; ridicule
  • mocking

adjective

  • facetious
  • humorous
  • playful; mocking
  • jeering
Advertisement

Examples of "jesting" in Sentences

  • Are you jesting and I'm just being dense
  • Whether or not he was jesting is debatable.
  • The very joke which the xkcd strip was jesting
  • But my jesting should be a source of concern, experts say.
  • However, this jesting is written by people who really know their Canadiana.
  • Plutarch hath almost made a book of the Lacedaemonian kind of jesting, which joined ever pleasure with distaste.
  • ‘There is a sort of jesting which is very much in earnest, and includes some pretty serious disgust,’ said Martin.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Related Links

synonyms for jestingdescribing words for jesting
Advertisement

Resources

Advertisement
#AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz

© 2024 Copyright: WordPapa