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in jest
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in jestadverb
As a joke.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of in jest in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of in jest in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of in jest in a Sentence
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 ?
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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.
Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.
Alas, poor Yorick I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy...
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