raillery in English

noun

1

good-humored teasing.

There was laughter and raillery as he came aboard dripping, but Armand allowed the incident to be treated as a joke.

synonyms: teasing, mockery, chaff, ragging, banter, badinage, leg-pulling, joshing, ribbing, kidding

noun

• teasing, mockery, chaff, ragging, banter, badinage, leg-pulling, joshing, ribbing, kidding
• banter, give-and-take, backchat

Use "raillery" in a sentence

1. Prince Charles does not escape raillery from others.

2. 3 synonyms for Backchat: banter, raillery, give-and-take

3. Badinage (countable and uncountable, plural Badinages) Playful raillery; banter

4. He said this in a tone of jocose raillery.

5. He indulged in gentle raillery at God with closed doors.

6. What does Bantery mean? Full of banter or good-humored raillery

7. Banter definition, an exchange of light, playful, teasing remarks; good-natured raillery

8. Bantery (comparative more Bantery, superlative most Bantery) Full of banter or good-humored raillery

9. Bantery ( comparative more Bantery, superlative most Bantery ) Full of banter or good-humored raillery

10. Synonyms for Bants include banter, repartee, jesting, joking, raillery, badinage, joshing, kidding, persiflage and ribbing

11. She was greeted with raillery from her fellow workers, but Jason surprisingly wasn't around.

12. Bantery (comparative more Bantery, superlative most Bantery) Full of banter or good-humored raillery

13. He was gifted, on occasion, with a gentle raillery, which almost always concealed a serious meaning.

14. 3: He was Brusque, authoritative, given to contradiction, rough though never dirty in his personal belongings, and inclined to indulge in a sort of quiet raillery.

15. 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.

16. From his very first steps among men, he had felt himself, later on he had seen himself, spewed out, blasted, rejected. Human words were, for him, always a raillery or a malediction.

17. Cavil derives from the Latin verb Cavillari, meaning "to jest" or "to raise silly objections," which in turn derives from the Latin noun Cavilla, meaning "raillery." In case you're wondering, "Cavil" is not related …

18. Banter: 1 n light teasing repartee Synonyms: backchat , give-and-take , raillery Types: badinage frivolous Banter persiflage light teasing Type of: repartee adroitness and cleverness in reply v be silly or tease one another Synonyms: chaff , jolly , josh , kid Type of: bait , cod , …