pleasantry

How To Use pleasantry In A Sentence

• I've considered enlisting though (they are currently in the midst of a massive recruitment drive), and claiming about ten years' salary for the ‘stress’ of the first bit of unpleasantry that I have to deal with.
• In fact, the good squire was a little too apt to indulge that kind of pleasantry which is generally called rhodomontade: but which may, with as much propriety, be expressed by a much shorter word; and perhaps we too often supply the use of this little monosyllable by others; since very much of what frequently passes in the world for wit and humour, should, in the strictest purity of language, receive that short appellation, which, in conformity to the well-bred laws of custom, I here suppress. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
• His matter quite apart -- and it is always interesting -- and abstractedly from his pervasive pleasantry, which is always original, it is a wonder that he is not more esteemed than he is in an age which professes to set store by style. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
• The groundwork of the pleasantry is the identity in form of the proper name with the common noun 'will.' A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
• In fact, the good squire was a little too apt to indulge that kind of pleasantry which is generally called rhodomontade: but which may, with as much propriety, be expressed by a much shorter word; and perhaps we too often supply the use of this little monosyllable by others; since very much of what frequently passes in the world for wit and humour, should, in the strictest purity of language, receive that short appellation, which, in conformity to the well-bred laws of custom, I here suppress. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
• The Commandant laughed heartily at this blunt pleasantry, and partly out of good nature, and partly to avoid all blame should the prisoners escape, agreed to the proposal of the diplomatic subadar. The Story of the Guides
• But, I understand, the great disturbers of the room where Mad. de ____ sleeps are two chanoines, whose noses are so sonorous and so untuneable as to produce a sort of duet absolutely incompatible with sleep; and one of the company is often deputed to interrupt the serenade by manual application _mais tout en badinant et avec politesse_ [But all in pleasantry, and with politeness.] to the offending parties. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
• The form of bicycle he rode long ago became antiquated, but in the humor of his pleasantry is a quality which does not grow old. What Is Man? and Other Essays
• To Camilla what belonged to pleasantry in this business was of short duration, When the cotillon was over, she saw nothing of Edgar. Camilla
• I saw enough to conclude, that Ancennis was not without the characteristic French elegance; and I must once for all say, that the manners of Marmontel are founded in nature, and that the daughters of the yeomanry and humbler farmers in France have an elegance, a vivacity, and a pleasantry, which is no where to be found out of France. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808