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pleasantry

[ plez-uhn-tree ]

noun

plural pleasantries.
  1. good-humored teasing; banter.
  2. a humorous or jesting remark.
  3. a courteous social remark used to initiate or facilitate a conversation:

    to exchange pleasantries.

  4. a humorous action.


pleasantry

/ 藞辫濒蓻锄蓹苍迟谤瑟 /

noun

  1. often plural an agreeable or amusing remark, often one made in order to be polite

    they exchanged pleasantries

  2. an agreeably humorous manner or style
  3. rare.
    enjoyment; pleasantness

    a pleasantry of life

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of pleasantry1

1645鈥55; < French plaisanterie, Old French plesanterie. See pleasant, -ry
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of pleasantry1

C17: from French plaisanterie, from plaisant pleasant
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After some pleasantries, I explained that I couldn鈥檛 help with her moving boxes because I was about to conduct a highly sensitive business transaction.

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They greeted each other with the clinking of their gold-coloured swords and exchanged pleasantries.

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Normally, a band works its way up to the goosebump moments, but why waste time with pleasantries when we鈥檙e all neighbors here, right?

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They shook hands, exchanged pleasantries, and Mother followed him to a doorway with a security camera.

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