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Meanings of raillery in English
Catalan
estira-i-arronsa Usage of raillery in English
1
People seemed surprisingly upbeat this morning; there had been laughter and raillery.
2
It has nothing of raillery in it, but is serious and earnest.
3
But Mayo gave a somber return to the raillery of her eyes.
4
Then Vera made a hasty retreat amid the raillery of her friends.
5
Eleanor only half-followed him in his raillery, but she caught his meaning.
6
It is a good-natured bit of raillery, with something of grimness underneath.
7
Shirley was noisy as usual, and for once her raillery seemed appropriate.
8
As to my raillery, I trust it has never yet hurt you.
9
Nothing has struck me so much in Plato's dialogues as the raillery.
10
Poussin studied nature with a minuteness that often exposed him to raillery.
11
All of her joyous raillery was gone, all of her gentle arrogance.
12
He smiled- aforcedsmile of raillery, hiding sudden fierce suspicion and jealousy.
13
He has been vastly lavish of erudition, of smut, and insipid raillery.
14
The young Count evidently did not comprehend his mother's spirit of raillery.
15
At this touch of grammar school raillery, she finally cracked a smile.
16
At table he endured some raillery about his poor sense of direction.
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United Kingdom
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