Thesaurus / banter
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
There’s no nice lunches, no banter among teammates and there’s no fun work trips.
Powers’s script lends a fly-on-the-wall appeal to the fictionalized banter among Cooke, Clay, Brown and X, as their larger-than-life personas fuel a crackling dialogue on faith and philosophy.
Ellie is often on her own, which is a shame since creator Naughty Dog has historically excelled at building relationships through banter in both The Last of Us and the Uncharted series.
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The banter is sharp as a knife, Stars Hollow exudes warmth, and everything is gently touched with just the right amount of melancholy.
EVERY EPISODE OF GILMORE GIRLS, RANKEDCONSTANCE GRADYOCTOBER 6, 2020VOX
This unreasoning, feminine obstinacy so wrought upon him that he permitted himself a smile and a lapse into irony and banter.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI
This brings to my Memory (what I cannot help smiling at) the bountiful Banter, you at this time endeavoured to put upon me.
A LETTER FROM MR. CIBBER TO MR. POPECOLLEY CIBBER
"You might spare me that 'alias, the Eye' business," Black Hood said, some of his old-time banter returning.
A joke, a banter, a bon-mot, make more impression upon the man of the world than all the grave notions of his religion.
SUPERSTITION IN ALL AGES (1732)JEAN MESLIER
You love to banter; you love to give me that surname of 'Rich,' to me, now no less poor than Job.
As Bassett passed through the library to his own room he paused to indulge in a moment's banter with Miss Farrell.
A HOOSIER CHRONICLEMEREDITH NICHOLSON
WORDS RELATED TO BANTER
- acerbity
- acidity
- acridity
- acrimony
- aspersion
- banter
- bitterness
- burlesque
- causticity
- causticness
- censure
- comeback
- contempt
- corrosiveness
- criticism
- cut
- cynicism
- derision
- dig
- disparagement
- flouting
- invective
- irony
- lampooning
- mockery
- mordancy
- put-down
- raillery
- rancor
- ridicule
- satire
- scoffing
- scorn
- sharpness
- sneering
- superciliousness
- trenchancy
- wisecrack
- acerbity
- acidity
- acridity
- acrimony
- aspersion
- banter
- bitterness
- burlesque
- causticity
- causticness
- censure
- comeback
- contempt
- corrosiveness
- criticism
- cut
- cynicism
- derision
- dig
- disparagement
- flouting
- invective
- irony
- lampooning
- mockery
- mordacity
- put-down
- raillery
- rancor
- ridicule
- satire
- scoffing
- scorn
- sharpness
- sneering
- superciliousness
- trenchancy
- wisecrack
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