The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jestingly \Jest"ing*ly\, adv. In a jesting manner.
Wiktionary
adv. said, written or done in jest
WordNet
adv. in jest; "I asked him jokingly whether he thought he could drive the Calcutta-Peshawar express" [syn: jokingly]
Usage examples of "jestingly".
David and Deborah his manner remained always the same, jestingly ironic, scornfully loquacious, lovingly friendly of a sudden, then for a day, two days, a week utterly silent, while his eyes roved, his ears were acock listening for a step.
We continued our walk, and when we were far enough from the husband, who was with my housekeeper, I said I had been overcome by what she had said, but that it had doubtless been spoken jestingly.
Her father asked her jestingly if I had paid her a visit in the night.
ANGEL II Ere the first fruit thereof grow audible, Holding as hapless his dream of good guardianship, Jestingly, earnestly, shouting it serviceless, Tardy, inept, and uncouthly designed.
Herod became King of Judea, then, at just about the time that Charmian refers to him so jestingly.
I happened to say to Ada, in his presence, half jestingly, half seriously, about the time of his going to Mr.
He then would assume the tone of a man speaking jestingly, but I was not deceived.
We continued our walk, and when we were far enough from the husband, who was with my housekeeper, I said I had been overcome by what she had said, but that it had doubtless been spoken jestingly.
Fabiani consoled me, half jestingly, by saying that there should be neither confession nor castigatory sermon, although I had actually so well deserved it.
He sent Tolkien detailed criticisms of the poem, which he jestingly couched in the form of a mock textual criticism, complete with the names of fictitious scholars (Pumpernickel, Peabody, and Schick) who suggested that weak lines in Tolkiens poem were simply the result of scribal inaccuracies in the manuscript, and could not be the authentic work of the original poet.