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Meanings of raillery in English
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Examples for "banter"
Examples for "banter"
1
As often as time would allow, we met for pints and banter.
2
The day's cases were discussed quickly and quietly, without the usual banter.
3
At some point, his racist banter was met by the wrong one.
4
But the real goodwill and kindly feeling in the banter redeemed it.
5
Sir Peter said he was extremely disappointed she misinterpreted some light-hearted banter.
1
Some of the sites they produce are terrific; others simply in-joke backchat.
2
Muslim men weren't noted for encouraging backchat from women, no matter how liberal they liked to present themselves.
3
All the backchat, all the jabbering.
4
That's a yellow at least, surely, but the only card shown is to Buaben for a spot of backchat.
5
He exists on impertinent sprints, mordant backchat and splenetic waves of his arm at any referee or linesman who finds against him.
1
Instead, multitudes started adopting pragmatic ways to allow give-and-take among complex citizens.
2
It makes the give-and-take compromises so necessary to politics harder to achieve.
3
And the sense of give-and-take between soloist and orchestra is first- rate.
4
He suggested there needed to be more give-and-take from the other side.
5
The usual give-and-take of gay repartee was missing at supper that night.
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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