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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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
No person, no moment is safe from his railleries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suddenly, from the street outside, a very jovial gentleman began to beat with a staff on the shop-door, accompanying his blows with shouts and railleries in which the dealer was continually called upon by name.
From Short Stories for English Courses by Rosa Mary Redding Mikels
She publicly reprimanded you for your indiscretion, and your marked preference for her, always offensive to other women, has exposed you to the railleries of the Marquise, her sister-in-law.
From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by William Hassell Overton
Suddenly, from the street outside, a very jovial gentleman began to beat with a staff on the shop-door, accompanying his blows with shouts and railleries in which the dealer was continually called upon by name.
From Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson
