Words similar to jest

Example sentences for: jest

How can you use “jest” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

This useless blurb is only half in jest.
' (David Foster Wallace, about Infinite Jest [weighing in at 1,088 pages, including 200 odd pages of footnotes] in Salon .)"-- Andrew Staples
He had labored too long to make America his own to feel it pulled out from under him, even in jest.
David Foster Wallace wrote in Infinite Jest : "Talent is its own expectation.
Two terms, now considered somewhat archaic, that fit into the category of eliciting laughter are jest and sally .