jestingly

They talk loudly, hum the latest popular air, call jestingly to a lonely, forgotten girl in a boa and white veil.

Shallow Soil 2003

They talk loudly, hum the latest popular air, call jestingly to a lonely, forgotten girl in a boa and white veil.

Shallow Soil Knut Hamsun 1905

They walked together out of the bright room of the large decorative picture called jestingly "The Three Disgraces," on through the Salle

The Guests Of Hercules M. Leone Bracker 1901

Phillis, who spent all her spare time at the White House, -- for they both made much of Herbert's "good angel," as he still called her jestingly, -- was sitting alone with Mrs. Cheyne when Archie was announced.

Not Like Other Girls Rosa Nouchette Carey 1874

I could get up now, if I wished, "jestingly," I am getting well as fast as I can, just to convict the other doctor of a mistaken diagnosis.

Round Anvil Rock A Romance Nancy Huston Banks

Sedgwick being an old dragoon, came to renew his former associations with mounted troops, and to encourage me, as he jestingly said, because of the traditional prejudices the cavalrymen were supposed to hold against being commanded by an infantry officer.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

As a result, Boeing's past managers occasionally have been derided as "bean counters," and engineers on a failed project have been jestingly accused of "smoking marijuana."

Boeing Brings in Old Hands, Gets an Earful 2010

She might have said, jestingly, that it was all done by magic.

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

He said to her [jestingly]: “Here, you have died!”

Eve: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

“Thou art a scandalous fellow, Dunois, to speak thus of holy wedlock,” answered Louis jestingly.

Quentin Durward 2008