Sentence examples similar to without jest from inspiring English sources
2. J-E-S-T Jest, jest, jest.
As one senior Malaysian diplomat put it to me, without a hint of jest, "Creating a community is easy among the yellow and the brown but not the white".
A visitor exaggerated when he reported that New Englanders could "neither drive a bargain, nor make a jest, without a text of Scripture at the end on it," but he was not far off.
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.
I would have hoped that by the year 2000 we'd be striving and thriving on our own individual talents without still being given the message, even in jest, that another woman's success diminishes us.
Have fun with it - Pretending for too long without telling anyone will lead to anger - make sure it's only in jest, and it's done for short periods of time.
"Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none was intended," he told Deadline.
In an email he has since claimed was meant in jest, he added that they should vote Conservative if they "believe in free enterprise and progression without being taxed out of the game".
Such language was delivered in jest.
Is he right, even in jest?
