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# jokingly

«jokingly» in Mova's school dictionary: **in a joking way, not seriously, to be funny** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (jokingly)

### meaning for a pupil

Jokingly means in a joking way, not seriously, to be funny. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jokingly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and everyday life it tells the reader that words were not meant seriously. Phrases: say jokingly, jokingly called, half jokingly.

### examples

- "You're so slow!" she said jokingly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jokingly/#x1)
- Dad jokingly called the dog "Your Majesty". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jokingly/#x2)
- He jokingly asked if he could have all the cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jokingly/#x3)
- I only said it jokingly, so please don't be upset. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jokingly/#x4)
- The team jokingly called their old bus "the Rocket". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jokingly/#x5)
- Half jokingly, Mum said she would sell my brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jokingly/#x6)
- And so this Soldier gets alongside of the merchant's daughter, and says to her jokingly-- [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jokingly/#x7)

### note

From joke + -ingly. Similar: teasingly, playfully, in jest. Careful: something said jokingly can still hurt someone's feelings.

### In the corpora

- ["Shuffled off this mortal coil" means died; it comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet and is used jokingly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/15/)
- ["Gone to meet his maker" means died; "his maker" is God, and the phrase is often used jokingly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/20/)
- ["Gave up the ghost" means died; it is also said jokingly of a machine that stops working for good.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/14/)
- ["The dearly departed" means the dead; it is polite and is sometimes used jokingly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/8/)
- ["Resting" means out of work, said jokingly of an actor (mostly UK).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «jokingly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jokingly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.