NOUN
  1. light teasing repartee
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How To Use raillery In A Sentence

  • It would appear that he was chiefly resorted to for comic underplots, in which he brought in a good deal of horseplay, and a power of reporting the low-life humours of the London of his day more accurate than refined, together with not a little stock-stage wit, such as raillery of Welsh and Irish dialect. A History of Elizabethan Literature
  • Was she reading too much into what appeared to be humorous raillery ? LASTING TREASURES
  • His tone had lost its raillery and the words were spat out. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
  • Could one have imagined that the brilliant wit, the luxuriant raillery, and the fine and deep sense of PASCAL, could have combined with the most opposite qualities -- the hypochondriasm and bigotry of an ascetic? Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
  • Making due allowance for that good-natured raillery which is one of the spices of existence, it may be truthfully said that anyone who laughs in earnest at the West calls attention merely to his own shallow conceit. The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country
  • Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
  • Passions ran high as raillery at the religious orders, and attacks on collaborationist elites found expression in personal correspondence and in the press.
  • New Australians were treated with wary raillery.
  • He was gifted, on occasion, with a gentle raillery, which almost always concealed a serious meaning.
  • Excuse, madam, a little innocent raillery I met you both, with a discomposure on your counte-nances. Sir Charles Grandison
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