What is "joking"

Usage examples of "joking".

He even reproached him for his poor writing and did not cease joking at the philanthropic and amiable sentiments Opiz loved to parade while at the same time keeping his pursestrings tight.

At last, joking was over, and I reminded her that we had to think of more substantial pleasures.

At first Olavides thought I was joking, but he soon found out that my remarks had some sense in them.

You must be joking, considering that every inch of me has been plumbed in the orgy.

His first question was to enquire what science I was studying, and he thought I was joking when I answered that I was learning the grammar.

The wine was delicious, and we stayed at table till midnight, laughing and joking together, though without overstepping the bounds of propriety.

After more joking the three brothers slipped away to the bushes and emptied the flask, spending the rest of the evening pretending they were sober.

Eventually his joking turned to impatience and he threw his son out and took her himself.

But joking apart, Fanny, I think that I should have been wrong to stand out, when so much was said about it.

She had had courage enough, and presence of mind, to joke about the matter when her sister-in-law spoke to her, and yet she was quite aware that it was no joking matter.

In spite of her excellent joking it was presumed that she would be unhappy if she failed.

Lucy, he would have been past all joking, and I must doubt whether it would not even have affected his appetite.

They crowded round me, laughing, joking, asking questions, too happy in their drink to play it any way but the way he wanted it.

Gavin was joking because he gets so intense, and humour in the middle of this desperate story is not unlike his work.

I started joking around with AH, asking her which one of us she thought they fancied.