pleasantries

Example Sentences

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Pleasantries weren’t the point of the conference call with Mick Cronin.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2025

Pleasantries have set a positive tone to the meetings so far, but behind the smiles and the pagentary, there is real pressure on Japan.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025

Pleasantries dispatched, Ms. Somers managed a vampy strut — as vampy as you can strut with a crutch, anyway — down a hallway that features “wellnes” offerings so “modrn” that extraneous letters are scarcely needed.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2020

Pleasantries are pleasant for a reason; hearing the unvarnished truth from every casual friend would be exhausting.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2015

Shut up your ill-natured Muses at Home with your Business, but bring your good-natured Muses, all your witty Jests, your By-words, your Banters, your Pleasantries, your pretty Sayings, and all your Ridiculosities along with you.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius