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What does jestingly mean?

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Adverb
  1. In jest, jokingly.
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It was jestingly said that the model for the Odeum was from his own head.
Let thy hair grow long and talk Punjabi,' said the young soldier jestingly to Kim, quoting a Northern proverb.
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.
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.

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