Sentence examples similar to a common jest from inspiring English sources

"It was a jest, a joke.

His confirmation hearing included a reminder of an indulgent jest he once made about the Ku Klux Klan.

It was a lighthearted, insignificant jest, Lumpe thought, hardly a test or a ruse.

"A macabre jest," mutters an embarrassed Otto Schily.

Actually, his sentence was a judicial jest.

Today, that is no longer a sardonic jest.

In his dictionary Johnson defines "conundrum" as a low jest; a quibble; a mean conceit.

Thereafter, navigation became, in Worsley's words, "a merry jest of guesswork", as they encountered the worst of the weather.

He has since issued an apology, claiming it was all "a jest".

She suffered whiplash and a spate of ageist remarks – a subject of jest she later likened to racism.

That must be a jest.