Sentence examples for Quite jokes from inspiring English sources

These are not quite jokes, but nor are they saddled with dramatic meaning; they are light, rhetorical gestures toward the dark.

"I personally think propeller hats are quite jokes – anything not serious will go down well – bucket hats or flower bands for the less adventurous otherwise".

(Not quite) jokes aside, there have been some scary times lately for Xbox, and to his credit Spencer is doing all he can to clean up the shit that his predecessor, Don Mattrick, left behind.

Twice I was asked directly, not quite joking, how I could believe sex between men was natural.

The book is a dangerous move: it could be taken as the lining of a very large coffin by a writer who is too worried about his reputation and who is not quite joking when he speaks of reincarnation.

"This is too close after Trump," he said, joking but not quite joking.

Maybe I'm too sensitive to this sort of not-quite-joking.

Afterward, he became nationally known as a peppery and sometimes profane critic of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's response to the hurricane, not-quite-joking that FEMA had become his favorite curse word.

It would appear that, like me, opposition leader Tony Abbott had heard quite enough jokes about suppositories to last three lifetimes.

After a couple of quite good jokes at the expense of Ken Clarke (Mog the Cat) he roamed around the world before starting to push my buttons.

And if the night seemed a bit tame, if some songs seemed more like elaborate (and quite unfunny) jokes, and if it sometimes seemed that this star had given up on casual listeners to focus on his hard-core fans -- well, it was a Morrissey concert.