jest
noun
a joke or witty remark; witticism.
is jesting
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present progressiveof jest (3rd 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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She is jesting: I have it here; Monsieur, the feint is useless.
From Amphitryon by A. R. (Alfred Rayney) Waller
They crowd around the lady; it is supposed at first that she is jesting, but her emotion is too serious to have been causeless.
From Led Astray and The Sphinx Two Novellas In One Volume by Octave Feuillet
Your grace is jesting: better far it were To punish, and severely, her presumption, Than heed her guilty tales, or idle follies.
From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Jane Alice Sargant
Do you not know her well enough, Landis, to know when she is jesting and when she is not?”
From Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall by R. G. Vosburgh
"Can it be that Elwood is jesting?" he asked himself.
From Adrift in the Wilds or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys by Edward Sylvester Ellis
