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raillery::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | backchat, banter, give-and-take |
| Type of | repartee |
| Has types | badinage, persiflage |
Examples of raillery
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Interestingly enough, its aim is never bedroom comedy but drawing-room raillery.
From the time.com
Darkness was upon their lumpy brows, and a deeper nihilism in their raillery.
From the theatlantic.com
In the case of the recently deceased, raillery would not be in good taste.
From the washingtontimes.com
It celebrates the chicanery of the human spirit, the love of raillery and rodomontade.
From the time.com
Soon you probably can ask Mr. Obama how it was that even a messiah couldn't get immunity from raillery and ridicule.
From the washingtontimes.com
The update allows her to play Beatrice's spirited, cynical raillery as the shrugging truculence of a rather yobby ladette.
From the independent.co.uk
The tradition of British comic art began with a cultural obsession with raillery that bonded 18th-century Britons.
From the guardian.co.uk
Does the toilet raillery go on too long?
From the time.com
Various repressive remedies were proposed, but Shaftesbury maintained that fanaticism was best defeated by raillery and good-humour.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Banter: light teasing repartee
- A joke is a question, short story, or depiction of a situation made with the intent of being humorous. To achieve this end, jokes may employ irony, sarcasm, word play and other devices. Jokes may have a punchline that will end the sentence to make it humorous.
- Good-natured ridicule, jest or banter
