Use "pleasantry" in a sentence
1. 22 And thy too-forced pleasantry!
2. 20 Danglars smiled at the good-natured pleasantry of the count.
3. 21 After an exchange of pleasantry, the leader start their negotiation.
4. 26 I said: "Any other time you would have laughed at my little pleasantry."
5. Nonplussed for a moment, Pug realized that the heavy pleasantry was intended as a kindness.
6. Antonyms for Crudity include decency, delicacy, modesty, purity, virtue, compliment, pleasantry, blessing, morality and goodness
7. 27 Nonplussed for a moment, Pug realized that the heavy pleasantry was intended as a kindness.
8. If only he could unbend and relax, even give a genuine smile or make a pleasantry.
9. 23 Elizabeth tried to join in her father's pleasantry, but could only force one most reluctant smile.
10. 24 If only he could unbend and relax, even give a genuine smile or make a pleasantry.
11. Both curiosity and pleasantry come from his free and flexible painting style, and elapse with a life style marked by fantasy.
12. Joking, kidding (informal), ribbing (informal), teasing, jeering, quipping, mockery, derision, jesting, chaff, pleasantry, repartee, wordplay, joshing, badinage, chaffing, raillery, persiflage She heard them exchanging good-natured Banter.
13. 28 Mr. Obama bluntly accused China of undervaluing its currency and offered the customary pleasantry — "It is wonderful to see you again" — in his meeting with Mr. Hu.
14. 29 For many years Jess had been employed about the cemetery as a man-of-all-work and it was his favorite pleasantry that he knew 'every soul in the place'.
15. Courfeyrac and Bossuet, whose brave good humor increased with the peril, like Madame Scarron, replaced nourishment with pleasantry, and, as wine was lacking,(Sentencedict) they poured out gayety to all.
16. 25 Courfeyrac and Bossuet, whose brave good humor increased with the peril, like Madame Scarron, replaced nourishment with pleasantry, and, as wine was lacking, they poured out gayety to all.
17. 30 A group of young men and girls were gathered about her, and there was much hand-clasping, laughing and pleasantry on which Mrs. Welland, standing slightly apart, shed the beam of a qualified approval.
18. Buffoon (n.) 1540s, "type of pantomime dance;" 1580s, "professional comic fool;" 1590s in the general sense "a clown, a joker;" from French bouffon (16c.), from Italian buffone "jester," from buffa "joke, jest, pleasantry," from buffare "to puff out the cheeks," a comic gesture, of echoic origin