raillery

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

The secret of his comedy was in his delivery, which was a blizzard of mockery, raillery and mayhem.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2017

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

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

No person, no moment is safe from his railleries.

From Time Magazine Archive

A man will be justly uneasy at being reminded of those railleries in one company which he would very patiently bear the imputation of in another.

From The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes Volume 12 by George Saintsbury

These heroic characters, however, were generally parodied, and rendered fantastic, by the gross railleries of Silenus and the Fauns.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop

I endeavoured, by arguments and railleries, to revive his courage.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown