jokingly > define
adverb
- In jest.
- usage: "I asked him jokingly whether he thought he could drive the Calcutta-Peshawar express"
- synonyms: jestingly
- Not seriously.
- usage: "I meant it facetiously"
- synonyms: facetiously, tongue-in-cheek
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(adv.) In a joking way; sportively.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary