Crossword clues for jesting
jesting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jesting \Jest"ing\, a. Sportive; not serious; fit for jests.
Syn: joking.
He will find that these are no jesting matters.
--Macaulay.
Jesting \Jest"ing\, n.
The act or practice of making jests; joking; pleasantry.
--Eph. v. 4.
Jest \Jest\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jested; p. pr. & vb. n. Jesting.]
To take part in a merrymaking; -- especially, to act in a mask or interlude. [Obs.]
--Shak.-
To make merriment by words or actions; to joke; to make light of anything.
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
--Shak.Syn: To joke; sport; rally.
Usage: To Jest, Joke. One jests in order to make others laugh; one jokes to please himself. A jest is usually at the expense of another, and is often ill-natured; a joke is a sportive sally designed to promote good humor without wounding the feelings of its object. ``Jests are, therefore, seldom harmless; jokes frequently allowable. The most serious subject may be degraded by being turned into a jest.''
--Crabb.
Wiktionary
1 facetious 2 humorous 3 playful; mocking 4 jeering n. 1 joking 2 bantering; ridicule 3 mocking v
(present participle of jest English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "jesting".
At any rate she had a jesting air, and the bystanders noticed that she pronounced the words of her abjuration with a smile.
I could see by the tone of her voice that she was jesting, but her reply did not please me.
When she kissed her sister I asked if she would not give me a kiss too, and after some jesting Augusta changed the joke into earnest by bidding her come to bed beside me, without taking the trouble to ask my leave, so sure did she feel of my consent.
I have known all my life, the falseness in a hearty laugh, the envy and the malice in a jesting word, the naked hatred in a jeering eye, and all the damned, warped, poisonous constrictions of the heart--the horrible fear and cowardice and cruelty, the naked shame, the hypocrisy, and the pretence, that are masked there behind the full hearty tones, the robust manliness of the Hortons of this earth .
Much surprised at the ease with which money may be got in Holland, as I had been merely jesting in the remarks I had made, I thanked him for his kindness, and listened to his explanation.
All at once she burst into a peal of laughter, and asked me if I had been jesting all the time.
Poor Riberboos said all this as if he were jesting, but despair had no doubt a good deal to do with his resolve, since it is only in great misery that we despise both life and fortune.
The counselors and I did some temperate jesting at the king, suggesting that he ruled a people so sunk in hebetude that they were no longer even litigious.
Thinking that the quarrel might have an unpleasant ending, I told him that Tiretta was only jesting, and I made my friend say so, too.
Bertrand replied, with an horrible oath, that he did not like such jesting, and a violent altercation ensued, which was, at length, silenced by the thunder, whose deep volley was heard afar, rolling onward till it burst over their heads in sounds, that seemed to shake the earth to its centre.
Her artlessness, her vivacity, her eager curiosity, and the bashful blushes which spread over her face whenever her innocent or jesting remarks caused me to laugh, everything, in fact, convinced me that she was an angel destined to become the victim of the first libertine who would undertake to seduce her.
We stayed at table for three hours, drinking, singing, and jesting, while my humble servants, whose beauty almost rivalled that of my guests, waited upon us.
Very much surprised, she looked at me to ascertain whether I was serious or only jesting.
The Illyrians trimmed the sails close and went to oars, jesting good-naturedly, and as the lead ship, we glided into the cool shade.
The fear and the problem were surely real, though obviously there were one or two jesting daredevils in Binger who had stolen out to the mound and made off with the tools I had left.