Definitions for pleasantries

pleasantries pleas·ant·ry

Spelling: [plez-uh n-tree]
IPA: /ˈplɛz ən tri/

Pleasantries is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 2131 anagrams from letters in pleasantries (aaeeilnprsst).

Definitions for pleasantries

noun

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

Origin of pleasantries

1645-55; French plaisanterie, Old French plesanterie. See pleasant, -ry

Examples for pleasantries

Eve thought so too, and she lost all her desire for pleasantry.

On her return she found him exuberant, in a flow of spirits and pleasantry.

With which pleasantry, and a touch of the foot, I moved my friend aside.

She laughed briefly, as at a pleasantry, and so Henry laughed too.

He laughed uproariously at his pleasantry as he leapt into the saddle.

Thorpe grinned faintly at the hint of pleasantry, but he did not relinquish his point.

I could have kicked him for that pleasantry—if he had not been just then too important a personage to kick.

I replied, that her pleasantry was much more agreeable than her anger.

Sim started at the pleasantry with which Ralph had tried to soothe his spirits.

Does it not spoil some of your zest for this pleasantry to think how it is paid for, brother?

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