pleasantry
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It’s unclear if this is a plea or a pleasantry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Suddenly things that seem kind of nice because they are little dashes of pleasantry in what may be an otherwise sterile work environment are relatively banal in the context of working from home.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
After emerging from the car, and before they walked the picket line, Slater and Harrah exchanged a nonverbal pleasantry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2020
Murray seemed embarrassed, mumbled some pleasantry, then turned away.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 6, 2019
Among the servants, too, there was some opportunity for social pleasantry, we being drawn from so many houses.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Together for the better part of four decades, L7 did not faff around with small talk and pleasantries: They took the stage and rocked your face off.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Whatever Tuchel said, and it was unlikely to have been pleasantries, was the catalyst for an outstanding attacking display which saw Jude Bellingham restore England's lead moments after half-time.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
Groups of passersby stopped outside the city’s La Carlota air base—one of the sites targeted in Saturday’s military incursion —to take photos, exchanging pleasantries as they snapped photos of the bombed site.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
They exchanged pleasantries with Mrs. Sutherland, she departed, and the men got straight down to business.
From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2025
She’s wearing the polka-dot one-piece I helped her pick out, but she clearly doesn’t have time for pleasantries.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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