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How to use jestingly in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word jestingly? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Pretty women, flushed and glittering, heard the news told jestingly between the dances, and feigned an intelligent interest they did not feel.
Half jestingly, I ask if he has ever been tempted to throw anything at it.
The nazism remarks, which were jestingly made in response to a question about his German roots, would probably spell career suicide if uttered outside the rarefied atmosphere of the Cannes film festival – and indeed may yet.
They heard her talking normally, even jestingly, with one of the aunts, and they admired her for her courage.
Examples from Classical Literature
Also, my comrades used jestingly to propound the ethical maxim that a man ought never to let himself become a burden upon anyone.
He got the better of me on several occasions afterwards, but without malice, jestingly, casually.
Let thy hair grow long and talk Punjabi,' said the young soldier jestingly to Kim, quoting a Northern proverb.
It was jestingly said that the model for the Odeum was from his own head.
At last the conversation turned jestingly upon the upsetting of the shelf.
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