Jestingly
[d'ʒestɪŋlɪ]
Definition
(adv.) In a jesting manner.
Editor: Percival
Examples
- Which, I presume, exists only in your brain, said Roylands jestingly. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- His words recalled the vision of that other afternoon when they had sat together over his tea-table and talked jestingly of her future. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He was once jestingly asked at the navy department at Washington if he could turn a seventy-four? William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Editor: Percival