Examples of joking

• I thought she was joking but she was deadly serious.

• Just blow off his comments, he's only joking.

• The normally dour Mr James was photographed smiling and joking with friends.

• He jokes about it now, but at the time it was very serious.

• Don't joke about it! It's not funny.

• Joking about frailty was also a means of acknowledging the presence of death.

• There are many joking references to her in the sessions, although the adolescents knew that she would hear these remarks.

• Among the staff, humor and joking together provided a means of negotiating the tension around hierarchical differences.