raillery
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The first Shakespearean phrase I underlined during this period was “skirmish of wit,” about the raillery between Beatrice and Benedick, which inspired a lifelong expectation that romance must include snark.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2021
The roguery and raillery are in place, and he has a pleasing way with a song, but his instincts for clowning undermine his suavity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2019
Advertisement Advertisement Often, though, their teasing doesn’t feel different from the family raillery of many a sitcom.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2015
Old pals, they knew each other’s foibles and weaknesses all too well and exploited them in an ongoing raillery of inside jokes, ragging, and general good-natured BS.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2013
I saw their eyes bespeaking confusion at this raillery, sorrow to hear our liberator mocked thus, and anxiety at what His Lordship’s uncertainty might mean.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
No person, no moment is safe from his railleries.
From Time Magazine Archive
They stood in an alcove long known ironically as "The Statesman's Window," from the highly political railleries exchanged there when voluble Mr. Potter was on the Council.
From Time Magazine Archive
Amidst a thousand railleries a second garland was brought and put upon Klingsohr.
From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Friedrich von Hardenberg
Ben Jonson did not then foresee that, before the lapse of one generation, the Puritans would be sufficiently powerful to take a very severe revenge on his art, on account of similar railleries.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by John Black
She publicly reprimanded you for your indiscretion, and your marked preference for her, always offensive to other women, has exposed you to the railleries of the Marquise, her sister-in-law.
From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by William Hassell Overton
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