Sentences with jest
jest
J j - It was a jest rather than a reproach.
- He enjoyed drinking and jesting with his cronies. [VERB + with]
- A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.
- Glenn JACKSON IT WAS suggested in jest that Robert Finch was relieved rugby league's focus had diverted from him to his son's club, Melbourne.
- To act in jest
- To speak half in jest, half in earnest.
- Please don't jest with me.
- Your majesty, stop him before he makes you the jest of the court.
- Surely you jest!