raillery
noun
good-humored ridicule; banter.
railleries
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pluralof raillery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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No person, no moment is safe from his railleries.
From Time Magazine Archive
They stood in an alcove long known ironically as "The Statesman's Window," from the highly political railleries exchanged there when voluble Mr. Potter was on the Council.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had been informed of some railleries which the French king had thrown out against his conduct with regard to his wives.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by David Hume
Lemuel shyly dropped the subject, not feeling himself able to cope with his elder in these railleries.
From The Minister's Charge by William Dean Howells
Interrupt me not," replied Rodolphe, "and truce to your railleries.
From Bohemians of the Latin Quarter by Henry Murger
