jesting
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛstɪŋ/
adj
- facetious
- humorous
“He will find that these are no jesting matters.”
- playful; mocking
- jeering
noun
- joking
“Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings, / Her faith, her oaths, her tears and all were jestings.”
“What an extraordinary mental delusion jesting is; that sort of laboured vivacity which fancies it is pointed when it is only personal; and more extraordinary still, it is always the resource of stupid people.”
- bantering; ridicule
- mocking
verb
- present participle and gerund of jest