Thesaurus / bantering
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synonyms for bantering
- affable
- amiable
- buoyant
- cheery
- chipper
- convivial
- cordial
- festive
- good-natured
- jolly
- lighthearted
- pleasant
- sociable
- airy
- animated
- blithe
- blithesome
- bouncy
- chaffing
- chirpy
- companionable
- conversable
- daffy
- delightful
- dizzy
- enjoyable
- facetious
- festal
- gay
- glad
- gleeful
- hilarious
- humorous
- jocose
- jocund
- jokey
- jollying
- joshing
- jubilant
- larking
- loony
- lots of laughs
- merry
- mirthful
- nutty
- off-the-wall
- incredulous
- mocking
- sardonic
- amusing
- aporetic
- arch
- derisive
- disbelieving
- eccentric
- inquiring
- inquisitive
- odd
- probing
- quaint
- queer
- questioning
- searching
- show-me
- skeptical
- supercilious
- suspicious
- teasing
- unbelieving
- unusual
- biting
- caustic
- incisive
- mordant
- sarcastic
- sardonic
- satiric
- abusive
- bitter
- burlesque
- censorious
- chaffing
- cutting
- cynical
- farcical
- ironical
- lampooning
- paradoxical
- parodying
- pungent
- ridiculing
- spoofing
- taunting
- abusive
- biting
- bitter
- burlesque
- caustic
- censorious
- chaffing
- cutting
- cynical
- farcical
- incisive
- ironical
- lampooning
- mordant
- paradoxical
- parodying
- pungent
- ridiculing
- sarcastic
- sardonic
- spoofing
- taunting
antonyms for bantering
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How to use bantering in a sentence
Maybe Miss Belding can show us something we did not know, said the principal, in his bantering way.
THE GIRLS OF CENTRAL HIGH ON THE STAGEGERTRUDE W. MORRISON"Perhaps he would have had the cross of honour," added the bailiff, with a bantering, sarcastic air.
THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS: ENVY AND INDOLENCEEUGNE SUEHis face at once bold and bantering, is partially covered by a wrapper of white silk that falls upon his shoulders.
THE PILGRIM'S SHELL OR FERGAN THE QUARRYMANEUGNE SUEThe next day was Sunday and he lounged about the shack, sometimes reading and sometimes bantering his comrade.
THE GIRL FROM KELLER'SHAROLD BINDLOSS"You have found out something this time," he said, in a bantering tone.
COLONIAL BORNG. FIRTH SCOTTAs the busy days passed down in the little street, the bantering fellowship between Larry and Hunt took deeper root.
CHILDREN OF THE WHIRLWINDLEROY SCOTTShe was thus the center of a little laughing, bantering group when the Nicholas Rawdon party arrived.
THE MAN BETWEENAMELIA E. BARRHe wound up his remark, which was made in a bantering tone, with another malediction, which was earnest enough—savagely so.
LIFE IN THE RED BRIGADER.M. BALLANTYNEIn spite of his bantering tone the young inventor was pleased that his father was relaxing in a friendly game.
TOM SWIFT AND HIS GIANT TELESCOPEVICTOR APPLETONOther man of sarcastic bantering turn, too; tongue sharp as needles; whose sayings many birds of the air are busy to carry about.
HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA, VOL. XV. (OF XXI.)THOMAS CARLYLEWORDS RELATED TO BANTERING
- affable
- airy
- amiable
- animated
- bantering
- blithe
- blithesome
- bouncy
- buoyant
- chaffing
- cheery
- chipper
- chirpy
- companionable
- conversable
- convivial
- cordial
- daffy
- delightful
- dizzy
- enjoyable
- facetious
- festal
- festive
- gay
- glad
- gleeful
- good-natured
- hilarious
- humorous
- jocose
- jocund
- jokey
- jolly
- jollying
- joshing
- jubilant
- larking
- lighthearted
- loony
- lots of laughs
- merry
- mirthful
- nutty
- off-the-wall
- pleasant
- sociable
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.