Examples of jesting

• But jesting apart, the complexity of the motor car is not an answer here.

• I have been jesting, but there is a serious issue.

• I know that people were jesting when they talked about the local community centre, but they have a good point in respect of rural areas.

• There is a serious point to my jesting.

• He would find that this was no laughing matter and no subject for jesting.

• I do not tell that story in any jesting sense.

• One should not jest about that because the matter is too serious for jesting.

• Surely he was just jesting.