jest

People will tell you who they are regardless, even and especially in jest.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 8, 2026

I was a fresh-faced high school senior, living out the prime of my teenage youth in an increasingly progressive world where fundamentalist doomsday prophecies were lobbed around in jest.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025

To Mr. Drout, this is “both a light jest and a deeper comment by Tolkien about the ways that descriptions evolve into proper names.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

It is said in jest, but Hill fancies the chase.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025

Said if they’d a-been borned with books for brains, they’d be makin’ bottom wages jest the same.”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

"Everything is relaxed, despite the fact there are about 500 people staring at you," Bailey jests.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

“Well, they were right about that,” Chara jests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025

“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

Beneath the trees, warhorses whickered softly and pawed at the moist, leafy ground, while men made nervous jests in hushed voices.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Asked where he will play next week, Guehi jested: "Who knows? Maybe up front. We'll see."

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

“Look at me,” he jested, pulling off his cap to reveal sparse pearly fuzz.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

“If Monterey is actually overrun by witches — which it’s not — I’m frankly furious there wasn’t a witchcraft storyline on 'Big Little Lies'!” Oliver jested, referring to the popular HBO show.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 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 Washington Times ● Dec. 14, 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

Stewart exclaimed, before leaning into the bit by putting on his glasses and jesting, "Sorry, I didn't mean to say that. That was in my teleprompter. I apologize."

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2024

“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

The last time she had seen him he had been jesting with her uncle at her wedding feast; the Mallisters stood bannermen to the Tullys, and his gifts had been lavish.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin