How to Use jester in a Sentence
jester
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Pugs is dressed like a jester, poor kid.
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Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
3 Sep. 2025
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Happy to stay until the end of the month to train a new jester.
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Claire Friedman,
The New Yorker,
14 July 2022
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Reynolds is a court jester who doesn’t know when to stop shaking the bells on his cap.
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Tom Gliatto,
Peoplemag,
26 July 2024
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The frill around the jester's neck appears to ruffle in the wind.
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Jennifer Billock,
Smithsonian,
15 July 2019
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The jester archetype wants to live the moment and invites you to as well.
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Tolulope Adedeji,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2022
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These people are clowns, jesters, fools in the medieval sense.
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Jp Brammer,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Dec. 2023
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Also look for a flambeaux throw, jester's hat and light-up beads.
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Melinda Morris,
NOLA.com,
8 Feb. 2018
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Willem Dafoe plays Heimir the Fool—half jester, half mad prophet.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes,
25 Apr. 2022
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Elvis was the true king and Richard was seen as just a court jester with a runaway ego.
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Thor Christensen,
Dallas News,
9 May 2020
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What the history books don’t say is that a court jester held the winning hand.
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cleveland,
14 Nov. 2020
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Tonight, these jesters are turned into rock stars in the heart of Midtown.
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Eric Francisco,
Rolling Stone,
1 Mar. 2025
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Baseball can treat a player like a king on a throne or court jester without a joke.
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Paul Hoynes,
cleveland,
17 Apr. 2022
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Even if jesters are no more, our need to dissent and criticize has not passed.
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Theater Critic,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Mar. 2025
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Climbing in proved awkward with the mini skirt of my court jester costume.
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Los Angeles Times,
17 Aug. 2019
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Both end up haunted by their pasts when the jester’s daughter falls under a spell and in love with the duke.
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Courtney Devores,
charlotteobserver,
7 Feb. 2018
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Lewis, a tall man with graying hair, and Roger, many years his junior, in the role of jester.
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Chicago Tribune,
27 Oct. 2022
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With the other hand, the jester points his finger at the puppet, scolding him.
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Devlyn Camp,
Chicago Reader,
22 June 2018
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Everyone’s a court jester now, eager to expose the foibles of kings and queens.
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David Von Drehle,
The Denver Post,
7 July 2019
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Her fans come for the jester-like antics and spectacle onstage.
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Lauren Giella,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 May 2026
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Queen Angela was first, proceeded by a whirling-dervish jester.
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Michael Dumas,
AL.com,
7 Feb. 2018
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Right, the court jester who once leaned into James during a timeout and blew in his ear.
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Bruce Jenkins,
SFChronicle.com,
7 July 2018
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Which is weird enough, but Clooney had to be a li’l court jester and make the whole thing that much more difficult.
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Vulture,
14 Oct. 2022
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But beneath that persona, was a deeply sensitive man who cloaked himself in the role of the jester.
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Jason Sheeler,
Peoplemag,
23 Sep. 2023
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On freedom of opinion, on freedom of the press, on freedom of satire, on jesters’ freedom.
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ABC News,
2 Apr. 2026
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On Breaking Bad, Saul had been a world-wise jester, all quips and garish suits.
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Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
14 Apr. 2022
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In Putin’s Russia, the more Prigozhin acts like a wicked court jester, the better.
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Andrei Soldatov,
Foreign Affairs,
12 May 2023
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Late-night comics, the Democratic Party’s court jesters, mocked him.
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Matthew Continetti,
National Review,
27 July 2024
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His left hand is tattooed with a skull in a jester’s hat, a grim image offset by his lanky and not-quite-old-enough demeanor.
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Fatima Faizi,
New York Times,
23 Nov. 2020
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As the two moved through the scenes like a pair of tragic jesters, delighting the wide-eyed and annoying the cynics.
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Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
16 Jan. 2025
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But, according to Retz, the Revelers' jesters went off the rails.
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NOLA.com,
5 Jan. 2018
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