Usage examples of "plaisanterie" in French with translation to English

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Tom a tenté une plaisanterie. Tom cracked a joke.
Ignorez ce qu'il a dit, c'était juste une plaisanterie. Take no account of what he said, he was only joking.
La plaisanterie était à mes dépens. The joke was at my expense.
Les remarques sarcastiques et de plaisanterie de Spenser sont souvent mal interprétées comme signes d'ambivalence et souvent prises trop au sérieux. Spenser's sarcastic and joking remarks are often misinterpreted as signs of ambivalence and often taken too seriously.
Ce n'est qu'une plaisanterie. It's merely a joke.
Il l'a dit par plaisanterie. He said it as a joke.
Sa plaisanterie nous a fait tous rire. His joke made us all laugh.
Je n'ai pas compris cette plaisanterie. I didn't understand this joke.
Elle a pris ma plaisanterie au sérieux. She took my joke seriously.
Que la plaisanterie n'aille pas trop loin. Don't carry a practical joke too far.
Soyons honnêtes ! Cette plaisanterie était à mon propos. Let's be honest. That joke was about me.
Je l'ai dit en manière de plaisanterie. I said it as a joke.
Il a pris (considéré) cette histoire comme une plaisanterie. He regarded the story as a joke.
Son apparente colère n'était en fait qu'une plaisanterie. His apparent anger proved to be only a joke.
Nous pensions que sa menace n'était qu'une plaisanterie. We thought his threat was only a joke.
Un Français, par exemple, pourrait trouver dur de rire à une plaisanterie russe. A Frenchman, for instance, might find it hard to laugh at a Russian joke.
Ses vieilles plaisanteries m'ennuyaient. I was bored with his old jokes.
Tom aime raconter des plaisanteries obscènes. Tom likes to tell dirty jokes.
Tu ne saisis jamais mes plaisanteries. You never get my jokes.
Tom aime raconter des plaisanteries salaces. Tom likes to tell dirty jokes.
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