in jest

He had never heard his parents say such a thing, even in jest.

I say it in jest to get a point across.

How can you even address her as such in jest?

We soon found out that the man did not speak in jest.

After this many years, it had been made more in jest than anything else.

I mean this in jest of course if its not obvious.

As the saying goes, many a true word is spoken in jest.

I hope that post is in jest or on the wrong article.

Never point a weapon at another person, even in jest.

"I'm just going to keep the guys at the ball park," he said, perhaps only half in jest.

"Some years earlier, they might have cut off my head," he said, half in jest.

I say this in jest, but you have to understand what the motivation is.

I said, only half in jest, that we should just go to the honor system and we'd come out way ahead.

The old man's head looked like something that had been carved in jest.

The master had suggested to him once, half in jest, that he become a teacher himself.

However, they did not take him seriously because he always spoke of it in jest.

"If something was said in jest or taken out of context, I can't answer to that."

These were matters which he could not treat of even in jest.

Conservative officials said that most of the comments were in jest.

Someone else on the tape asks, in jest, what should be done with all the money.

Play, as some experts put it only half in jest, is the work of childhood.

Now many a true work is spoken in jest and to me that 'says it all'.

Then she remembered what he'd said in jest about the flower girl.

The Governor said later that he had made the remark in jest to a friend.

She smiled, to show this was in jest, to a degree.