Sentence examples similar to private jesting from inspiring English sources

In the Nicomachean Ethics (4, 8) he warns that "Most people enjoy amusement and jesting more than they should … a jest is a kind of mockery, and lawgivers forbid some kinds of mockery perhaps they ought to have forbidden some kinds of jesting".

— You're jesting.

His tone was gentle, not jesting.

It's hard to know if Atwood is jesting.

He was jesting, but only in part.

RICHMOND The king? Art thou jesting with me, Derby?

The king? Art thou jesting with me, Derby?

Wit, too, eluded her, though she loved comedy, jesting, and slapstick.

JOHN McCAIN is a master of jesting about his advanced years.

And their can-you-top-this vein of jesting runs straight through our national attitude.

He was looking forward to being hit, he said, jesting only a bit.