jest
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People will tell you who they are regardless, even and especially in jest.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 8, 2026
It is said in jest, but Hill fancies the chase.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
They blur the line between personal and professional attire with a confidence that seems to jest at our conformity: Didn’t you sheeple know the rules are made up?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
The commission said Monguia’s shooting remarks “fostered an atmosphere of intimidation in the courtroom and, even if made in jest, were undignified and discourteous.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025
This is no jest, but life and death, perhaps more.’
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
“Well, they were right about that,” Chara jests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
Keyes jests: "Manhattan is no place for the weak or the young. You need a bucket of B vitamins to live there!"
From BBC ● May 26, 2024
“Eliahna was a master of jests and loved making people laugh.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2022
Jesse Jan Driessen jests that a big part of coping with distance in a relationship has been accepting that being in lockdown means a lot of mundane conversation.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2021
The others jest too, unpleasant jests, but what else can a man do?—The coffins are really for us.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
Captain Andy Robertson jested his team-mate was just seeking attention, not that he'd be short of it.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Lady A member Charles Kelley jested in the comment section.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
"Interesting that you brought this up, because no one has asked me," Rudolph jested.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2024
Speaker Rep. Joanna McClinton, a Democrat from Philadelphia County, jested, “Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate” — echoing the lyrics of Swift’s track “Shake It Off.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
A fooLmore foolish than most had once jested that even Lord lywin's shit was flecked with gold.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
Hamish says there is no excuse for anything beyond light-hearted jesting.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Some of you may know me as Kelly Bundy from ‘Married With Children,’” she continued, jesting that the audience didn’t need to applaud every time she does something.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
If all this jesting and jousting about historically documented misogyny, maternal misery and decapitation isn’t your goblet of grog after a while, “Six” smartly pivots in the final wife’s number, “I Don’t Need Your Love.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
But when he objected to her laughing, she said she realized he had not been jesting and just stared at him silently.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2022
“The usual jesting that takes place before a briefing was missing,” reported William Laurence, who’d come to Tinian to witness the event.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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