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词汇 jokingly
释义 jokingly
adverb
uk /ˈdʒəʊ.kɪŋ.li/ us /ˈdʒoʊ.kɪŋ.li/
in a way that is intended to be funny: 打趣地,戏谑地
She suggested half-jokingly that they should sell the family car and all buy bikes instead.她半开玩笑地建议他们将家中的汽车卖掉,把钱都拿来买自行车。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Humour & humorous
amusingly
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blackly
bone dryidiom
bring
coruscating
drily
gag
GSOH
jocose
lightly
mordancy
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pawky
photobomb
photobombing
rib
standing joke
wag
wisecrack

Examples of jokingly


jokingly
It was thus not surprising that many of the older women ' jokingly' described their homes as ' prisons' during the focus group discussions.
Jokingly one may put it this way.
In an effort to maintain integrity within the revival, commentators often noted that young participants would compete with each other with a mentality which was jokingly termed ' ' folkier than thou.
Familiar names from soap operas, sitcoms, daytime television, sports teams, and movies were frequently used to jokingly characterize people close at hand.
My question was slightly more coercive, he said jokingly.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Drunkenness itself is not defined, except jokingly, as the drinking of eight or more pints of beer.
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We all know that it happens, particularly for what are jokingly called non-essential operations.
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I say that only jokingly and by the way.
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I was a little surprised to hear him, perhaps jokingly, describe one of my noble friends as speaking for a particular organisation.
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I realise that this was said jokingly; but there is a certain amount of truth behind it.
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I jokingly say to the constituents that it is no surprise because they are the two virtues that are the rarest among politicians—fidelity and courage.
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I do not raise those points entirely jokingly.
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She somewhat mockingly, perhaps jokingly called it a "down payment", giving entitlement to national insurance benefits for life.
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One might say jokingly that if national legislation does not allow marriage by correspondence, then marriage by electronic means is also inadmissible.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
I use the word "criminal" jokingly.
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