jape

Then I will tell him that it was all a jape.

Well, that jape had cost him the offer of a drink.

It's good that he can make a jape of it, Jon thought.

The poorest have become the victims of a political jape.

Sometimes he teased her about that; she did not take his japes very well, though.

"What a jape the gods have made of us two," she said.

It all started as a bit of a jape.

University students have a long association with pranks and japes.

Yet the fun stuff, the laughs and japes are also absent.

The jape held a larger grain of truth than its speaker knew.

"This is by no manner of means a jape, God help us.

She was smiling too, and he knew it was at the same jape.

I didn't want to fall for my own jape.

This was quite a funny jape on Facebook, as a sort of private joke between friends.

A dozen cruel japes leaped into his head, but for once he kept them there.

It must be that he had seen only a small fraction of the Mailman's japes.

He and his friends charge off, howling with laughter at this ancient jape.

He has that fat jape of a priest with him, the one who likes to set his sword on fire.

Many of those fifty would not long survive this callous jape.

He saw deeper than most, did her Dominic, and covered the hurt of it with a jape.

She hoped he hadn't misunderstood her jape as a suggestion.

Or is this the Guardian having a Christmas jape with us?

But why downgrade a lovely slip to a silly jape?

There is one detail of Southern japes that has inverted its class associations.

But although many pirates see it all as a jolly jape, people in the software business are getting worried.