Thesaurus / pleasantry
FEEDBACKHow to use pleasantry in a sentence
It wasn’t one of these pleasantry kinds of meetings whatsoever.
THESE JOBS WERE NOT POSTED ON ZIPRECRUITER (EP. 473)STEPHEN J. DUBNERAUGUST 26, 2021FREAKONOMICSTo start, he exchanged pleasantries with the boy before attempting to debunk his testimony.
A BOY IS THE SOLE SURVIVOR OF A FAMILY MASSACRE. HIS DAD, THE SUSPECT, WAS ALLOWED TO QUESTION HIM IN COURT.JULIAN MARKJUNE 17, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe men exchanged pleasantries, Buzbee recalled, and then Buzbee made an offer.
AS MORE DESHAUN WATSON ACCUSERS GO PUBLIC, THEIR ATTORNEY RAILS AGAINST QUARTERBACK’S RESPONSEWILL HOBSONAPRIL 15, 2021WASHINGTON POSTI joined him and, after some pleasantries, raised the subject.
HOW BIKING ACROSS AMERICA FORMED AN UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIPRAFFI JOE WARTANIANOCTOBER 8, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEVargas, suspecting the conversation would turn into a recruitment pitch, stopped responding after exchanging pleasantries.
PANDEMIC SCHEMES: HOW MULTILEVEL MARKETING DISTRIBUTORS ARE USING THE INTERNET—AND THE CORONAVIRUS—TO GROW THEIR BUSINESSESELIANA DOCKTERMANJULY 9, 2020TIMEBut this pleasantry, excellent as pleasantry, hardly deserves serious refutation.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAYIt is a continental form of pleasantry, and an artistic experiment in blasphemy which is taken seriously by the unwise.
DEVIL-WORSHIP IN FRANCEARTHUR EDWARD WAITEShe looked up with a sort of half smile, as if she suspected some pleasantry of which she had not yet detected the drift.
WITH EDGED TOOLSHENRY SETON MERRIMAN"I think there is no necessity for carrying a pleasantry into our private life," she said, in a perfectly amiable voice.
IN SEARCH OF THE UNKNOWNROBERT W. CHAMBERSThis was evidently local pleasantry, for the old man cackled over it, and his cronies joined in with gusto.
DRACULABRAM STOKERWORDS RELATED TO PLEASANTRY
- amusement
- badinage
- banter
- buffoonery
- clowning
- comedy
- comicality
- comicalness
- drollery
- drollness
- facetiousness
- farce
- farcicality
- flippancy
- fun
- funniness
- gag
- gaiety
- happiness
- high spirits
- humorousness
- jest
- jesting
- jocoseness
- jocosity
- jocularity
- joke
- joking
- joyfulness
- kidding
- levity
- lightness
- playfulness
- pleasantry
- raillery
- ridiculousness
- tomfoolery
- whimsy
- wisecrack
- wit
- witticism
- wittiness
- zaniness
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