jest
noun
a joke or witty remark; witticism.
am jesting
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present progressiveof jest (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"You must not think I am jesting," said I, seriously.
From Arms and the Woman by Harold MacGrath
My indulgent reader will, of course, guess that I am jesting.
From The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Herman Bernstein
You laugh, brothers, you imagine that I am jesting?
From Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Conrad von Bolanden
People think, perhaps, that I am jesting at them, but no one thinks I am jesting at his horse or his ox when I speak well of them.
From Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by William Knapp
"You think, perhaps, I am jesting with you, madam," rejoined Demdike.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
