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In Jest

/ˈɪn ˌd͡ʒɛst/

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What does In Jest mean?

prep_phrase

  1. As a joke.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈɪn ˌd͡ʒɛst/

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You may skirmish with Miss Dartle, or try to hide your sympathies in jest from me, but I know better.
Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldProject Gutenberg ebook #766
The serious manner in which he relates his stories makes it sometimes hard to tell whether he is in jest or earnest.
J. A. (Joseph Amasa) MunkArizona SketchesProject Gutenberg ebook #756
More book examples (3)
That she was doing for an earnest reason what would most naturally be done in jest was at any rate a safe secret.
Thomas HardyThe Return of the NativeProject Gutenberg ebook #122
But of the Spanish war and the conquest of Sertorius, no one, even in jest, could have ascribed the honor to anyone else.
PlutarchPlutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansProject Gutenberg ebook #674
Half in jest, half in earnest, she said to her old friend at parting, “If your governess leaves you, keep the place open for me.”
Wilkie CollinsThe Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern VeniceProject Gutenberg ebook #170