jest
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“Actually, while that bit is about my concerns about homophobia, I really love pineapple on pizza now and so it’s really just propaganda for pineapple on pizza,” he says, only half in jest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
People will tell you who they are regardless, even and especially in jest.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 8, 2026
Not a word was spoken during the final face-off before Wardley again offered a fist bump - this time in jest - as Dubois looked eager to leave the stage.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
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
“So it’ll have to be jest a Sunday ride or not a-tall, Miss Love.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Clarkson jests that while the pair have been in rehearsals for the show, they too haven’t shied away from their emotions.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2024
“Eliahna was a master of jests and loved making people laugh.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2022
Her family called her “a master of jests who loved making people laugh” but who was also “nurturing and always putting others before herself,” according to her obituary.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 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
I rose and took his plate, little entertained with jests on matters of such gravity.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Captain Andy Robertson jested his team-mate was just seeking attention, not that he'd be short of it.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
“That’s like saying: ‘I’ll have the soup and if you don’t have that I will take sneakers,’” the host jested.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 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
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
"Hope that's not weasel soup," he jested, Roose Bolton was seated by the hearth reading from a thick leatherbound book when she entered.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Hamish says there is no excuse for anything beyond light-hearted jesting.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Cohen during the Monday episode of his SiriusXM show, "Radio Andy," addressed a number of jesting messages he had shared regarding the royal situation.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 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
Her handmaids and the men of her khas came after, smiling and jesting among themselves.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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