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“In that moment it was a jestful conversation with a friend I’ve known for over 10 years.”

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2017

Popular was the jestful question: "When does Prohibition begin?"

From Time Magazine Archive

He was rich, open-handed, just, a friend of poor troopers, keen- eyed, jestful, and careless.

From Traffics and Discoveries by Kipling, Rudyard

Was his imposture a jestful or a wicked one?

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

However this may be, I know that one of the zestful things about a lecturer's life is the jestful thing that lurks at his side almost everywhere he turns.

From From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book by Bangs, John Kendrick