jest
noun
a joke or witty remark; witticism.
have jested
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present perfectof jest.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Dozens of other units have jested and jeeped their way around the fronts; such headliners as Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Edward G. Robinson, Morton Downey, Fred Astaire have come & gone.
From Time Magazine Archive
If it were true he should not show that flippancy; if it were not he should not have jested.
From The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem by Frank X. Leyendecker
I fancied that she was a little cool in her manner: possibly she thought I ought not have jested on such a subject, but I would make it all right now.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 by Various
I have jested with Parsons, laughed with Toler, laughed and wept both with poor Curran.
From One Of Them by Charles James Lever
How then? should she have jested upon it? or has the good woman lost her book, and so made a false account?
From The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by A. Marsh
