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Example sentences from the Web for half-jokingAnd, quite frankly, “the women were running out,” he said, half-joking. Revealing The Unseen Picasso|Justin Jones|November 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST “We can blame Carrie Bradshaw for this,” says Shaunaq Arora, half-joking; his sigh tinged with the cloudy breath of his Gauloises. How Brooklyn Invaded Paris—Next Stop, the World|Brandon Presser|October 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST Detroiters, now erecting a Robocop statue as a half-joking, half-serious morale boost, may want to consider bronzing Mulally next. The CEO Hail Mary: A Scorecard on Corporate Change Agents|Nick Summers|March 1, 2011|DAILY BEAST The half-joking quip was reported around the world as if it were a call for divine providence. Inside Holbrooke's War With the White House|The Daily Beast|January 14, 2011|DAILY BEAST
The old, half-joking maternal manner was all in earnest now. My shipmate spoke with deep feeling, though he had begun in a half-joking vein. Marmaduke Merry|William H. G. Kingston She had been puzzled at first by his manner of treating everything with a half-joking pessimism, but now ignored it. The Runaway Skyscraper|Murray Leinster "All correct, sir," said Sonny laughingly, and with a half-joking salute. Air Men o' War|Boyd Cable She liked Muriel, she decided, but she did not altogether understand her half-cordial, half-joking manner. Marjorie Dean High School Freshman|Pauline Lester
adjectivesaid, done, or acting in a seemingly jokey manner, but with some serious intent Derived forms of half-jokinghalf-jokingly, adverbWords nearby half-jokinghalf-hunter, halfies, half-inch, half-integral, half-jack, half-joking, half landing, half-lap joint, half-leather, half-length, half-life Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |