jestful
- a word derived from jest.
Example Sentences
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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
This is, though doubtless jestful, really a point de repère for the manners of the later nineteenth century as concerns a busy man who likes society.
From Matthew Arnold by Saintsbury, George
Was his imposture a jestful or a wicked one?
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden
