jest
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1. jest - Noun
2. jest - Verb
3. jest - Adverb
Meaning
A deed; an action; a gest.
A mask; a pageant; an interlude.
Something done or said in order to amuse; a joke; a witticism; a jocose or sportive remark or phrase. See Synonyms under Jest, v. i.
The object of laughter or sport; a laughingstock.
To take part in a merrymaking; -- especially, to act in a mask or interlude.
To make merriment by words or actions; to joke; to make light of anything.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Jest with your equals.
Many a true word in spoken in jest.
He that would jest must take a jest, or else to let it alone were best.