Sentence examples for jestingly from inspiring English sources
adverb
Said, written or done in jest
Half jestingly, I ask if he has ever been tempted to throw anything at it.
(Bad man, huai ren, was a term jestingly applied to those rule-breaking Hainan adventurers).
The Oxford English Dictionary says, rather playfully, "First catch your hare (ie as the first step to cooking him): a direction jestingly [my italics] ascribed to Mrs Glasse's Cookery Book [1747], but of much more recent origin".
"You stretch him out to a mile, now," Lynam jestingly counselled the smiling O'Brien.
Pretty women, flushed and glittering, heard the news told jestingly between the dances, and feigned an intelligent interest they did not feel.
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.
In another essay in "Self-Taught Art," the critic Arthur Danto points to this quality when he jestingly proposes to solve the naming dilemma with "a nice Heideggerian compound such as Ausderkunstweltkunstleren artists not of the art world".
But Fran and her friends sometimes half-jestingly imagine a kind of semi-permanence.
