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Jest

//d͡ʒɛst//

Are you in jest or in earnest?

Many a true word is spoken in jest.

I said so purely in jest.

He said so in jest.

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

It is impudent of you to jest at him.

I said it in jest.

The question was a serious one, but he answered half in jest.

Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

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I made that comment in jest; it wasn't serious.

Alas poore Yorick, I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite Ieſt; […]

Your majesty, stop him before he makes you the jest of the court.

Why then make ſport at me, then let me be your ieſt, / I deſerue it[…]

the jests or actions of princes

He promised us, in honour of our guest, / To grace our banquet with some pompous jest.

Surely you jest!

So I jest called out to know what was up, and found it was Miss Vanholte's cowboys, who had been forced into the store by them rascally ruffins.

"Jest like the Injian puzzle-boxes, ain't they?" said Dan, as the one boat dropped into the other.

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