Definitions for pleasantry

pleasantry pleas·ant·ry

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

Pleasantry is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 959 anagrams from letters in pleasantry (aaelnprsty).

Definitions for pleasantry

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 pleasantry

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

Examples for pleasantry

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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