| 单词 | half-jokingly | 
| 释义 | > as lemmashalf-jokingly  b.   With adverbs, as  half-angrily,  half-apologetically,  half-ashamedly,  half-blindly,  half-consciously,  half-divinely,  half-jokingly,  half-learnedly,  half-questioningly, etc.;  half-left,  half-right,  half-round, etc. Cf. half adv. 1d. ΚΠ c1700    I. Watts To Mitio in  Horæ Lyricæ Pt.  iii. ii, in  Wks. 		(1813)	 IX. 200  				Damon is half-divinely blest. 1807    S. T. Coleridge Notebks. 		(1962)	 II. 2998,  				I still half-consciously expect to awake from the night-mair. 1841    T. Carlyle On Heroes v. 304  				Struggling half-blindly, as in bitterness of death, against that! 1863    A. D. T. Whitney Faith Gartney's Girlhood i. 10  				Holding the bank-note half-ashamedly in her hand. 1883    Harper's Mag. June 141/2  				The..little trot..lisped, half-coaxingly, half-questioningly. 1913    J. London Let. 17 Oct. 		(1966)	 408  				He..is..half-apologetically explaining that it is the first time. 1923    J. M. Murry Pencillings 271,  				I was, half-consciously, anxious to be reassured. 1949    M. Mead Male & Female ii. 22  				It is often said half-jokingly. < as lemmas | 
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