raillery

But singular cases may exist wherein raillery is inapplicable, and of which it is not for us to judge.

Its impertinence and folly might well have provoked the raillery of the most inoffensive.

Liszt calls Chopin "a fine connoisseur in raillery and an ingenious mocker."

Is it possible that there should be a more perfect style, or a finer, more delicate or more natural raillery?