jesting

Example Sentences

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Jesting or not, the only thing new in the notion is the hyperbole.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jesting friends of Governor Morley took pot shots at the prison searchlight, exploded mammoth firecrackers before the prison door.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is in Dr. Barrow's first volume, and fourteenth sermon, 'Against foolish Talking and Jesting.'

From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by Boswell, James

Jesting, he cried: 'Algar! but hear those birds!

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey

Jesting as to morality, their respective abilities, their tendencies and characteristics were all taken and given in good part.

From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore