Although offered in jest, some ideas here contain a spark of genius ("custard-filled speed bumps" and "continuously fresh underwear" being two).
This is offered in jest, but meant to prove a point.
The complaint, though offered in jest, wasn't without its merits: Mr. Donaldson has been a bebop paragon and a boogaloo pioneer since the 1950s.
Ahmed, for example, is damned for uttering several remarks that, if he ever made them, were offered in jest.
Mr. Kelly, who called in to the show later, offered his own jest, that the delay was surely the fault of the Transportation Department, which got tongues wagging around City Hall.
A proposed solution, therefore, offered only partly in jest: Mr. Giuliani and Ms. Nathan have been apartment hunting.
Many offer some wry comment, such as John Gay's epitaph: Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, and now I know it.
That opinion is not offered lightly, or in jest, or with the requisite delusion that comes with New York sports fandom.
"In the future, maybe you won't have to pay," Mr. Acquisti offered, only half in jest.
"Shrek the Musical" is not the first show to offer japes and jests about Broadway musicals.
