"half-jokingly" meaning in English

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          "text": "I wrote a piece, half-jokingly, for The Independent suggesting that it was all part of a cunning plan by ministers to deter people from using the railways. […] I now suspect this was rather closer to the truth than I had thought.",
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        "With an element of jest, but fundamentally in earnest."
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          "code": "it",
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          "sense": "with an element of jest, but fundamentally in earnest",
          "word": "tra il serio e il faceto"
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          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "with an element of jest, but fundamentally in earnest",
          "word": "półżartem"
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        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "with an element of jest, but fundamentally in earnest",
          "word": "pół żartem, pół serio"
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          "sense": "with an element of jest, but fundamentally in earnest",
          "word": "eadar fealla-dhà is fealla-trì"
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          "sense": "with an element of jest, but fundamentally in earnest",
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  "word": "half-jokingly"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "with an element of jest, but fundamentally in earnest",
      "word": "tra il serio e il faceto"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "with an element of jest, but fundamentally in earnest",
      "word": "półżartem"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "with an element of jest, but fundamentally in earnest",
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      "sense": "with an element of jest, but fundamentally in earnest",
      "word": "eadar fealla-dhà is fealla-trì"
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      "sense": "with an element of jest, but fundamentally in earnest",
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