half-jokingly
English edit
Etymology edit
Adverb edit
half-jokingly (not comparable)
- With an element of jest, but fundamentally in earnest.
- 2023 July 26, Christian Wolmar, “Closing ticket offices to lead to 'catch-22' for passengers”, in RAIL, number 988, page 42:
- I wrote a piece, half-jokingly, for The Independent suggesting that it was all part of a cunning plan by ministers to deter people from using the railways. […] I now suspect this was rather closer to the truth than I had thought.
Translations edit
with an element of jest, but fundamentally in earnest
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Further reading edit
- “half-jokingly”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.