Sentence example with the word 'raillery'

raillery

badinage, chaffing, fooling, grinning, jape, joke, kidding around, persiflage, repartee, smartness, snorting, twitting

Definition n. light teasing repartee

Last update: September 25, 2015


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Her habbit of cracking raillery every time is not good. .   [Please select]

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Spenser, in "Colin Clout's come home again," calls him with a spice of raillery "old Palaemon" who "sung so long until quite hoarse he grew."   [Please select]

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He indulged in gentle raillery at God with closed doors.   [Please select]

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(He wags his head with cackling raillery) Jocular.   [Please select]

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Her habbit of cracking raillery every time is not good.   [Please select]

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"Well, you had a chance to turn a pretty penny," he said, in a tone of gentle raillery.   [Please select]

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Quayle looked full at the speaker, and for once his expression held no hint of impertinence or raillery.   [Please select]

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The raillery of our host, not too nice or delicate, soon spurred him to a discovery of his complaint.   [Please select]

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His tone was full of not over-respectful raillery; his bold, bloodshot eyes met his companion's innocent looking ones with careless admiration.   [Please select]

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