The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jokingly \Jok"ing*ly\, adv. In a joking way; sportively.
Wiktionary
adv. In a joking manner.
WordNet
adv. in jest; "I asked him jokingly whether he thought he could drive the Calcutta-Peshawar express" [syn: jestingly]
not seriously; "I meant it facetiously" [syn: facetiously, tongue-in-cheek]
Usage examples of "jokingly".
Jokingly he has called himself the Aquitanian Bastard and Vera too has laughed.
Jakub while working absent-mindedly and at times jokingly, pretending that Jakub is a gynecologist too.
It was jokingly uttered, but Adela replied with some earnestness, as if to remove a false impression.
Joel said jokingly, downplaying the intense terror he experienced on that fateful morning.
Commissioner Charles Dusseau jokingly suggests that lobbyists bring megaphones to the meetings and holler their advice.
One day I told her jokingly that she would make me jealous, that I thought she really was a man, and that I was going to make sure.
When I met Isaac at the Philcon (a science fiction fan convention in Philadelphia) this past November, I reminded him of the fact we had collaborated and, jokingly, offered him a quarter for his share of the work.
I said, half jokingly, "You mean to say that even you, Sherlock Holmes, who expend all your energies in combating crimethat you harbor evil potentialities?
By the time they brought the sailboat in Alan Savage was enough at ease with Graice Courtney to say, jokingly, with his quick shyly aggressive smile and the habitual downcasting of his eyes that was seemingly a sort of tic with him, Too damn bad, my mother found you first.
It was not their fault that he had seen through the masquerade that day when he had jokingly ordered Canute to climb the tree, and the dog had not been smart enough to reject the directive.
She was at what we jokingly call the cocktail hour, then at dinner, then at the Mozart recital in the music room.
Everybody had something complementary or jokingly sarcastic to say about the new promotions but each crew member made a point of congratulating the new captain of Polaris on her promotion.
They rarely gained weight in the thighs or the stomach, only in the gluteus maximus, medius, and minimus, resulting in what her mother jokingly referred to as the gluteus muchomega.
He had a master's degree in international relations, which he jokingly defined as one country fucking another-but now, it wasn't a country, it was a corporation.
He seemed a laugh machine similar to one Kelvin's father had told him about, perhaps jokingly.