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Sentence Examples Lawyer Richard Potter points out that the odd word said in jest in the gossip pages of newspapers and magazines can also cause legal headaches. In jest, he tells Jake he shouldn't talk about his injury, making it a mystery like Henry's bicycle. Showing their jest for life, some children painted Walt Disney characters on their greetings. I spoke only half in jest when I said that the young miss might tell us something of history. I begin to protest, but then I see the jest in her mischievously jaded gaze. I jest about my celebrity crushes, and having 'fessed up, I think it's bloggable subject, but I don't take them too seriously. Romeo is surely with his friends Mercutio and Benvolio, funsters who prefer wit and jest to matters of the heart. Her skin was all pallid, not as the lifeless corpse as many would likely say in jest and scorn. In jest, my husband reminds me just how expensive each Christmas card is every year. They're nearly on a par with Liebfraumilch, and either given as an insult or in jest. Her brothers sought an opportunity to avenge the wrong that causes men like Ulick to laugh and jest, and women to hide their faces and die. Ill-timed injury was partly to blame, but so was an innocent jest that went wrong. In friendly jest, one of the waiters came up to her and wagged his finger gently, indicating that the establishment did not approve. Quebec never made demands to the federal government in jest or with flippant jokes. Coupled with learning, fun, jive and jest, to enhance one's personality one must get a good campus life. For example, a Bemba may throw verbal abuses to a Nyanja, but this is done in jest for the most part. This piece hits the nail on the head and proves that many a true word is spoken in jest. Whether it was by jest, or not many a true word is spoken in jest and often people get upset precisely for that reason. I'm joking, but you know, many a true word is spoken in jest, so in some ways it's true, at least with regard to today's scene. He pleaded guilty to possession of an unregistered firearm, which he tended to brandish at his employees, purportedly in jest. Show More Sentences I heard it was said in fun and jest, but until I talk to him, I really don't know. I think it was a joke, but many a true word is said in jest. In jest or not, this is not particularly sporting if you ask me. He often said that in jest, and Kat joked about it with him. After a while, he began to jest that there were snipers across the street trying to get him. Rawcus has to provide a solid argument in his rhetoric to make such an accusation, even in jest. And this explosion was fictional and in jest, so you can call it a pretty big hoot! It may have been said in jest, but a legion of Hollywood actresses would have nodded ruefully in unison. Efforts to pin down the exact nature of jibe and jest have challenged pundits, professional fools, antic clowns, studious gagmen, comedians of every kind and medium. A wealth of ideas issued from his lips, jest and wit and good humour were at his bidding, and his instructional lecture was also the most fascinating entertainment. They made me pass eight of them in discussion, and at the end rejected it as a thing of jest. This was always received with a mixture of interest and jest from his opponent and the journalists. Lodzia jest i przystania is part invocation, part necrology, and part martyrology. David was clearly chuckling when he was asked in jest about subtitling Mr Dalglish, of whom he is a big fan. Had any road rage nutter taken a swing at him, I rather untactfully asked him in jest. The company's post war the nearest, so I jest took down the river in that direcshun. Let's prove among ourselves our armes in jest, That when we come to earnest them with men, We may them better use. I will be answerable that this galliard meant but some St. Valentine's jest. I remember once, we'd had a spell o' weather jest like this, and it begun to gether up in the same way. A Galilean Rabbi? When did this Province of diggers in dirt and gutters of fish send forth Rabbis? Thou makest a jest. Show More Sentences Now ye and yore boys jest haul yore ashes and start makin' tracks back to the Yellowstone. Unto whom too many applying themselves, betwixt jest and earnest, betray the cause of truth, and insensibly make up the legionary body of error. All of these drama incorporated humor and jest, often involving audiences in their performance. They said in jest that he who had guarded the coast with such insensate zeal should be buried by the seashore. A scurrile or obscene jest will better advance you at the court of Charles than your father's ancient name. In jest, Ford put a stapler against his head to stop his hat from falling off when a documentary crew visited during shooting of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. In addition to reproducing anecdotes and quips from jest books and wit books, he makes particular use of George Whetstone's Heptameron of civill discourses. I was jest a little child but I knowed I oughten to go without my clothes. Your majesty, stop him before he makes you the jest of the court. In 2006, Gilbert hosted the BBC Radio Wales comedy panel show Jest a Minute, live from The Comedy Store in London. It is in this sense that the political world of Infinite Jest is perhaps best understood, for the masturbatory, Onanistic connotations of the name ONAN are hardly accidental. Examples from Classical Literature No one appeared for the prisoner, and, partly in jest, the court advised young Samuelson to take up the case. Or they was words to that effect, fur that doctor was jest plumb full of scripter quotations. You should jest 'ear wot I 'ear, old pal.Let big pots make the round o' the pubs, and they won't talk that footy fal-lal. And jest when I was lookin' forward to luxury and palaces in England, and everything so grand! How did they jest with him on his half-crazed notions, and laugh at his eccentricities! You dont know nothin neither, youre jest a bone head, your spines jest growed up and haired over. She saw at a glance that, whatever the jest might be, Aunt Rachel was no sharer in it. That particular sort of heavy-handed jest was specially dear to Bronckhorst. And I jest laughed in her face and went on to where Abram was waitin' for me. The jest dies on his lips when he recognizes the bannock who is tied to the stake. If I could jest git a drap of the grease into the key-hole I'd soon fix it. Yes, sirree, we've got a pack of bloodhounds, raised for jest that purpose. Montagu took the marquisate, but he indulged in a bitter jest and bided his time. Then I jest slipped over between the 'Lectric an' Mines, ye know, and come ahead of 'em jest as they turned to'RDS the bridges. Tiny peccadilloes were no longer matter of jest, and the sinner exposed stood 'sola' to receive the brand. Was it an elaborate jest at the expense of Giovanni, the writer of Vergilian verse? She would be a grass widow, a subject for all the vulgar jest and loathsome wit of the community. His enthusiasm for the villa at str had become an amiable jest with the Americans. On de days when I don't feel so feeble and trembly I jest keep patching 'round de place. No soljer's ever anigh 'em, and they've jest got lots and plenty o' everything. Show More Sentences He is evidently childish, and breaks now and then into an anile laugh at the thought, no doubt, of some dead old pot-house jest. He still made a jest of her remonstrance, trying the temper of the animal, and rejoicing in its dark flushes of ireful vigour. And the jest and joy of Israel's care-free life was to make them skip and shiver and dance to the tune of their trepidations. Take away the cow that gives the milk, an they would all blat jest like weaned calves. Being I faal like a firecracker that has jest been teched off, I suspict I caught his loving remarks consarning mesilf. The maiming of Lola's beauty has been the last jest which the Arch-Jester has practised on me. What 'urts me about it is that I jest made a sort of mistake 'ow she'd tike it. And then jest as I was gettin' into a drowse, I heard the cat in the buttery, and I got up to let her out. She walked the village like a queen, and no Fen farmer or squireling ventured to jest with her. I can chalk up a score with more rapidity than any man in England,' was his melancholy jest. They're jest waitin' fer us to trail on between them, when every man'll let fly with his popgun. All the Yucatecans will gladly join in a jest at the expense of mother church. Ef he's got somewhars 'round ten dollars in chicken-feed an' in ones an' twos, you assesses him dues of jest one dollar even. Still he was fairly handsome enough not to have muttered so heavy an oath as he did at the vivandiere's jest. I guess 't wouldn't ha' been put in jest that WAy if there WA'n't somethin' in it. They was some chinquapin trees in the fiel' and I jest natchally couldn' help stopping to pick up some 'chanks' now an' then. He didn't whup nobody very often, but he only had to whup 'em jest one time! The first time you meet the right one you are drawed jest like the witch hazel. And yet, if that offer had not been made as some sort of stiletto jest, why had it been made at all? She oversees her own kitchen, and puts on her own hand and cooks, jest when she is a mind too. Show More Sentences I come hup jest when the perleeceman and the pawnbroker were a-gripping yer. It was all very simple, this man-to-man system of traffic, but no one took it lightly or in the spirit of jest. And then it was boo-hoo, you know, same as women will when a thing ain't jest according to their liking. Whoever you may be, I caution you against rashly defaming the author of this work, or cavilling in jest against him. Why dat man want to be resto'd back like he was when he was jest 21 years old. She talked of puttin' the police onter us, jest as if we was a sly-grog shop. An', by cracky, I'm a-thinkin' from what we jest see that he's already got his reward! That it be seriously done with a real intention of doing the thing, and not histrionically, ludicrously, or in jest. We run alongside the wharf jest as Booth Hank climbed over the stringpiece. His infinite fund of full-flavoured jest had won him the nickname of Priapus. Urbanity he practised, not with jest and witticism, but by the courtesy of his demeanour. If the Amant rendu Cordelier be his, he too appears among those who jest at the follies and extravagance of love. To one born and bred on Exmoor, this was a jest that palled with no amount of repetition. An' I s'pose you feel it all the more, seein' the round-up's jest startin' out. Ef thet's true he didn't jest attack a furriner, but he affronted every Stacy an' busted ther truce ter boot! My words may seem a jest to the gainsayer, but I call the god Mut to witness that what I say is true. But that lignite, as you call it, was so sure low-grade that they jest laughed at me. So I jest reached in my pocket and teched it for luck, then I reached over and teched her arm. My bredren, dont think yer sufferin when yer not, jest for an excuse to git a dram. In tones more than telephonically agonised he bade me not make a jest of his misery. Show More Sentences And the sperrit o' the little feller, jest takin' his dorg 'n' lightin' out with nothin' but a perlite good-bye! When I see the feller go over, an' seen you start to'RDS the water, I jest took after the others. I jest can't put my finger on the spot that riles me, but that man riles me. Perhaps, after all, I might have the brains to jest and toss about words and shoot off epigrams. We're jest gettin' to the details of Seth's expense account after he found the Lucky Cuss. And jest at this time the dowery in Loontown fell onto Elnathan, so that they all come East. I was jest a little girl, and he didn't know whar to send me to, anyways. A man 'TS got jest a wife might look into a glass now and then. She jest seems to have been born with a sort of chronic spite agin men and Methodists. Heathcliff smiled again, as if it were rather too bold a jest to attribute the paternity of that bear to him. He's a danged old fool in his talk, but you jest keep an eye on him. And I hankered, I jest hankered, after bein' praised up as she was. Kathleen received him gravely, and even Hanna had not her accustomed jest. You jest pull in my sheets, an' shet the winder, while I do it. No, by our Lady that jest was played by Gualtier of Middleton, one of our own companions-at-arms. Wy, it's worth a fair six d a week jest to see 'em a slating Old Chips! It is so worthy of the deceiver to make a jest of his own crime! Then I made a jest of a deformity, and the joke carried me too far. You see I was jest a kid and dere's a lot of things I can't remember. To call the paltry jest preserved by salat a letter, is mere mockery. Show More Sentences The actor in Nick recognised the showmanship in the man, a Mercutio born, a ruffler who would die with a jest on his lips. Yet the jest, like the proverb, acquires a value by becoming current. He knows I don't want sech things, and he does it jest to aggravate me. It seems like profanation to laugh and jest and bandy the frivolous chat of our day amid its hoary relics. And when she got through they all jest laid theirselves out to make me feel at home and know I was amongst friends. Or is my state too low For you to cross your rapier against mine, In jest, or earnest? But you can last longer if you jest keep the system in mind a little. She says it's the only place fur folks with money, jest like you say. She is the victim of jest and suspicion, and later of jibes and insults. About one-tenth in earnest and nine-tenths in jest, we arranged a battery in the Doctor's study, and conveyed thither the Egyptian. He sed it was jest this dilly-dally policy that had ruined us. If ever she was suited to a dot, it was jest then 'n' there. As a fact, this remark about her sybaritism was only a jest. This customary jest about the servant's miserliness made him laugh. For everywhere men would crack a rustic jest or two, unhurriedly. Satan dropped it there, I take it, intending a scurrilous jest against your reverence. This is no mere jest, but a foreshadowing of Pietro Aretino. Now, I went over thar when Miss Mary was gwine to be married, and Jinny she jest showed me de weddin' pies. Though the challenge had been thrown out in jest, Nathan told his teacher he would consider it. An insensitive remark about the people of Fairwater in Cardiff may have been made in jest but very few will see the joke. Show More Sentences But I'd jest like to say 'tisn't me as is slopping' all over the shop. But 'tis jest equal sartin as a magistrate 'ud bring you hin guilty. It started me so, that I jest ketched hold of Josiah and hollered. This wedlock was more serious than most affairs of Merry Mount, where jest and delusion, trick and fantasy, kept up a continual carnival. March off like a passel of fools and leave eight or nine thous'n' dollars' worth o' property layin' around jest sufferin' to be scooped in? Linda could jest on occasions, but by nature she was a serious person. The point of the jest immediately became a sting, and stung my conscience. He made a jest of the affair, and invited his intimates to laugh with him. And Miss sypher thought that she would git some money jest as he did. I jest drawed the tab back coldly, and never dained a reply. Many a true word said in jest would suggest that I or indeed the ECHO are condoning cruelty. What malefic jest of Fate led her to select the story of Georgie-Porgie? You may skirmish with Miss Dartle, or try to hide your sympathies in jest from me, but I know better. This last jest is so trite to-day as to be absolutely threadbare. Laughter bubbled among the diners, and the Bishop caught himself smiling at more than one jest. We jest had180 time to wittol the boats and stand for the shore. I'm jest a runnin' over our business, to see if we can take up this yer handily. We jest haven't got the room and besides, they're only here to grab all the milk and honey an' jump the queue for the Elysian Fields funfair. Macfarlane made some ill-favoured jest about the farmer's wife, but it came hollowly from his lips, and was allowed to drop in silence. Yer jest one little feller amongst a hull lot of others, and yeh've got to keep quiet an' do what they tell yeh. Show More Sentences She's had steam up for three hours an' jest been a-waitin' fer that one passenger. It pokes fun at their history in a lighthearted way and, of course, it's all meant in jest. He was referring in jest to my flat cap which I had donned to protect my head from the chilly winds cutting across Whitmore Bay. The Friar dropped the flagon, and grasped his quarter-staff Wamba stopt short in the midst of a jest, and betook himself to sword and target. But the spirit of jest made the boss reckless and willfully disobedient. Wa'al, jest cut off the top, and what's left will be the frustum. But before he had finished he felt that his jest was unacceptable and had not come off. There can be no worse treason in the matter than a jest, and that somewhat of the dullest. Hey, you big Yank, you jest let that po' little conscrip' go! There is Anjou, who made a jest of the dead body of my uncle Conde. I'd 'a' felt foolish to have anyone know jest why I was makin' the trip. Lorand was annoyed by the ill-timed jest which he did not understand. Ef you had a dozen lawyers I'd have to app'int him jest the same. Barrington smiled faintly at the dry jest, but said nothing. And with your chance of a blow-out you're jest a-playing skittles. And everybody follerin' her, if she jest smiles, like a caff arter salt! Say, you come out with me some night jest in your workin' clothes. If there are people so unreflecting or so cruel, as to make a jest of me, what is left for me to do but to make a jest of myself, them, and everything? On Friday evenings the big, fire-lighted livingroom was crowded by callers and echoed to endless jest and laughter, while Aunt Jamesina smiled beamingly on them all. He's cheaper, but I guess it comes out jest the same in the end. Show More Sentences In addition, humorous texts contain an inbuilt disclaimer defusing the implications of the humorous situation by announcing that they were meant in jest, not in earnest. I've knet yeh eight pair of socks, Henry, and I've put in all yer best shirts, because I want my boy to be jest as warm and comf'able as anybody in the army. So I jest sot down and took a standing-up snack and started. The moments glided on, while a feeling of good fellowship passed around the circle like a mystic cord, holding and binding these people together with jest and laughter. By ginger, it hurt like thunder t' see ol' Jack jest git knocked flat. He jest smacked his lips over the bit as if 't was a lump o' sugar. Jest get under with her yourself, MIS' Clark, then you'll know all that's happening. Jest get to it an' set all the darnation territory you ken find between you an' Bell River before to-morrow. Jest at that minnit, who shed come right into the gleed but Marian herself! Jest the same it 'ud sure surprise me if we didn't git some sort of a shivaree pahty afteh nightfall. Jest like Japanese jugglers, a-fanning the bubbles, as would 'ug the ground. Jest over the hill you'll run into a passel of our fellers, but pay no 'tention to 'em. Jest reach me my six-gun outer the holster there in the chair. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of jest? Words that rhyme with jest What is the past tense of jest? What is the plural of jest? What is the adverb for jest? What is the adjective for jest? What is the noun for jest? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Jessop Jessie jessie Jessica Jesses jesse's jested jester Jester jesters jesting jestingly 4-letter Words Starting With j je jes