jesting

IPA: dʒˈɛstɪŋ

Examples of "jesting" in Sentences

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.