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  1. in jestadverb

    As a joke.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of in jest in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of in jest in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of in jest in a Sentence

  1. Morgan Freeman:

    It was just something I said in jest about when I first met her, it was more than 20 years ago, how is that news ?

  2. Marcus Tullius Cicero:

    Never injure a friend, even in jest.

  3. Rudyard Kipling:

    When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

  4. Latin Proverb:

    Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.

  5. William Shakespeare:

    Alas, poor Yorick I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy...


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