Jest is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for JEST in dictionary:

VERB:
• to joke
• speak in a joking way
• 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.
• tell a joke; speak humorously
• act in a funny or teasing way
• joke
NOUN:
• a thing said or done for amusement; a joke
• an object of derision
• 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.
• a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
• activity characterized by good humor
• something done or said for amusement

Words related to JEST

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Words that contain JEST

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How to use JEST in a sentence

• In France, Charles the Simple was still the tool and jest of the vassals.
• Fresh cans of ale were brought, and with jest and song and merry tales the hours slipped away on fleeting wings.
• He shook his head as she proceeded, and twice ventured a faint suggestion that she was only speaking in jest.
• Well said! Follow me this jest now till thou hast worn out thy pump, that, when the single sole of it is worn, the jest may remain, after the wearing, solely singular.
• They rode off laughing, as though amused with this jest of death.
• All them others was jest drawed so as to fool folks.
• Ghastly are they who jest in the shadow of tragedy.
• Jest as he might, she knew by instinct that he was vitally in earnest and she had a strange conviction that it was for the first time in his life.
• Possibly, indeed, he often laughed at what he did not utter, for every speech begun with a laugh, though it did not always end with a jest.
• His reverence for sacred things was so great that he was never known to relate a story which included a jest upon words from the Bible.
• Out to the barren, bleak hillside Rough hands bear it with scorn and jest.
• Perhaps it was a harsh test and an over cruel jest.
• During the night she had thought the matter over, and had come to the conclusion that it was only an evil jest, invented by Marzio to give her pain.
• The only exception is the case of people meeting together for the conscious practice of the language or using it in jest.
• To bait the Englishman in Huron seemed a good-natured enough jest, and full of possibilities.
• His name is Charles Croyden and sometimes in jest we call him C.
• Judge you now, whether they had most cause, either to hide their heads for shame, or to laugh at the jest.
• Henry had certainly been only in jest in what he had told her that morning.
• It was a happy party, full of song and jest and joy for that which was before them.
• All the occasions of that ignorant wonder, which renders a novice the jest of all about him, would be taken away.
• When Cavour spoke of himself in public, it was generally in a light tone, and half in jest.
• His utterance was partially made in jest, but having made it changed the nature of the contract.
• I jest begged Rose Mary to let me have Miss Viney and Miss Amandy.
• Coarse jest and laughter, ringing on the night, mocked at go-to-bed London.
• This gorgeous day, when children laugh and jest, And run and dance and not a thought withhold.

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