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Meanings of
bantering
in inglês
Cleverly amusing in tone.
facetious
tongue-in-cheek
Related terms
humorous
humourous
Usage of
bantering
in inglês
1
He looked up at the goggling eyes; he heard the
bantering
voice:
2
She was perfectly impenetrable to the
bantering
tone in which he spoke.
3
Mr. Masterman attacked her at once in a sort of
bantering
way.
4
Losing patience, they turned to Pinocchio and said in a
bantering
tone:
5
After saluting me with ceremonious politeness, he said in a
bantering
tone:
6
All about him there was the
bantering
talk of horsemen and grooms.
7
The find startled Inspector Chippenfield out of his air of
bantering
superiority.
8
She replied in a
bantering
tone, only half hiding a hurt undernote.
9
Suddenly the
bantering
gravity with which he spoke fell away from him.
10
Once outside, she suddenly dropped her
bantering
manner and said quite earnestly:
11
His spirits, which had been astonishingly light during their
bantering
exchange, sank.
12
His
bantering
tone, in speaking of his own position, had been successful.
13
It conceals-ashe was wont to do-strongfeeling under the
bantering
tone.
14
Ms Matafeo and Mr Waititi are already
bantering
about the movie online.
15
Instantly his attitude of good-natured
bantering
and pompous boastfulness dropped from him.
16
She is at once passionate, sensuous, politically dutiful,
bantering
and acutely perceptive.
Other examples for "bantering"
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bantering
banter
Verb
Present
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
old bantering
usual bantering
Bantering
through the time
Bantering
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common