half-joking

I was, she diagnosed, half joking and half horrified, a “digital hoarder.”

And, quite frankly, “the women were running out,” he said, half-joking.

“We can blame Carrie Bradshaw for this,” says Shaunaq Arora, half-joking; his sigh tinged with the cloudy breath of his Gauloises.

She added, only half joking, “The next 11 years will be my turn.”

Detroiters, now erecting a Robocop statue as a half-joking, half-serious morale boost, may want to consider bronzing Mulally next.

Later, I think, he regretted this, and made some half-joking overtures to have his letters returned.

She spoke in a half joking tone, but I feel sure that were I to write word I had found one desirable, it would give her pleasure.

One can imagine him laughing in his delightful hearty way, half joking, half caressing.

"All correct, sir," said Sonny laughingly, and with a half-joking salute.

"Quite so," answered the other in his careless, half-joking style.