Synonyms
Examples of jester in a Sentence
a gentle jester, the cartoonist more often tries to evoke a broad smile than a hearty guffaw
the king called for some much-needed entertainment from his jester
Recent Examples on the Web
And every year some 200 Renaissance fairs are held across dozens of US states and Canada, where participants come dressed as knights, jesters, damsels, pirates or even goblins, wizards, witches and fairies.
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Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 17 Mar. 2024
These people are clowns, jesters, fools in the medieval sense.
—Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
Clad head-to-toe in black, needy and needling, and most crucially a truth-teller in a world of polite lies and shallow eruptions, Lewis was a specter haunting the show, its dark jester and, in many ways, its conscience.
—Boris Kachka, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
In the Old World, royalty had jesters and favored court composers and painters while the Vatican showered wealth and fame on Michelangelo, Caravaggio and Raphel among others.
—Doug McIntyre, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
Stewart himself is one of the few who’s managed to serve as both jester and oracle: a figure who can channel the truth and entertain us while doing it.
—Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2024
In the performance at the now-defunct Club Lingerie on Sunset Boulevard, the band’s bassist was dressed as a jester, the drummer wore a demon mask and a horn player was dressed as a carrot.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
Stilt-walking harlequins, leaping court jesters, gladiators, riders on horseback, harem girls, and more descended upon the courtyard followed by a gilded carriage carrying five statuesque ladies dripping in jewels.
—Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 12 Nov. 2023
Entrepreneurial huckster Vivek Ramaswamy has graduated from being the court jester of corporate governance to now becoming a serious contender for the GOP presidential nomination as some 5% of primary Republican voters indicate they are entertained by his antics.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023
Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 17 Mar. 2024
These people are clowns, jesters, fools in the medieval sense.
—Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
Clad head-to-toe in black, needy and needling, and most crucially a truth-teller in a world of polite lies and shallow eruptions, Lewis was a specter haunting the show, its dark jester and, in many ways, its conscience.
—Boris Kachka, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
In the Old World, royalty had jesters and favored court composers and painters while the Vatican showered wealth and fame on Michelangelo, Caravaggio and Raphel among others.
—Doug McIntyre, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
Stewart himself is one of the few who’s managed to serve as both jester and oracle: a figure who can channel the truth and entertain us while doing it.
—Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2024
In the performance at the now-defunct Club Lingerie on Sunset Boulevard, the band’s bassist was dressed as a jester, the drummer wore a demon mask and a horn player was dressed as a carrot.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
Stilt-walking harlequins, leaping court jesters, gladiators, riders on horseback, harem girls, and more descended upon the courtyard followed by a gilded carriage carrying five statuesque ladies dripping in jewels.
—Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 12 Nov. 2023
Entrepreneurial huckster Vivek Ramaswamy has graduated from being the court jester of corporate governance to now becoming a serious contender for the GOP presidential nomination as some 5% of primary Republican voters indicate they are entertained by his antics.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023
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“Jester.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jester. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.
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jester
noun
jest·er
ˈjes-tər 
1
: fool entry 1 sense 2
court jester
2
: a person given to jests
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