Also, my comrades used jestingly to propound the ethical maxim that a man ought never to let himself become a burden upon anyone. |
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. |
Pretty women, flushed and glittering, heard the news told jestingly between the dances, and feigned an intelligent interest they did not feel. |
He got the better of me on several occasions afterwards, but without malice, jestingly, casually. |
They heard her talking normally, even jestingly, with one of the aunts, and they admired her for her courage. |