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The question finally becomes a kind of game as Author Amory half-playfully indicts Sherman Billingsley, Aristotle Onassis, Antony Armstrong-Jones and a slew of others.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is as though he had lightly touched on the ways of men, and discussed them half-playfully with some light-hearted, not to say frivolous, audience in a drawing-room.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

She had told him more than once, half-playfully, that if he wanted anything done, he must tell her himself.

From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony

"You are not very polite to me, Mr. Vivian!" she said, half-playfully, half-pettishly.

From Under False Pretences A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline

“Because the lodestone, the magnet of my heart was here,” he answered half-playfully, half-tenderly.

From The Award of Justice Or, Told in the Rockies A Pen Picture of the West by Barbour, A. Maynard (Anna Maynard)