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Definition of raillery in English: raillerynoun ˈreɪləriˈreɪləri mass nounGood-humoured teasing. 善意嘲弄，逗弄，戏谑 she was greeted with raillery from her fellow workers Example sentencesExamples - How would one teach that poem to a future generation that had come to regard the word as a piece of raillery?
- Apparently, it therefore equates to humorous ridicule in the general sense, or good-honoured raillery.
- Won't this type of biting raillery create enemies for you when it is published?
- The raillery of the two main characters lacks any real emotional context.
- The talking of the people was a sustained murmur from which now and then a few intelligible words escaped: a greeting, some bit of raillery, a reprimand to a horse, an oath.
- There was laughter and raillery as he came aboard dripping, but Armand allowed the incident to be treated as a joke.
- Passions ran high as raillery at the religious orders, and attacks on collaborationist elites found expression in personal correspondence and in the press.
- In all seriousness, and raillery aside, it was and is inspiring to know that a site like this can be so successful and have such a loyal following.
- And so commences the raillery, at the expense of the grousing giant.
- Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
- New Australians were treated with wary raillery.
Synonyms teasing, good-humoured mockery, chaff, banter, ragging, badinage, japing informal leg-pulling, ribbing, joshing, kidding, kidology North American informal josh rare persiflage
OriginMid 17th century: from French raillerie, from railler 'to rail' (see rail2). Definition of raillery in US English: raillerynounˈrālərēˈreɪləri Good-humored teasing. 善意嘲弄，逗弄，戏谑 she was greeted with raillery from her fellow workers Example sentencesExamples - How would one teach that poem to a future generation that had come to regard the word as a piece of raillery?
- And so commences the raillery, at the expense of the grousing giant.
- The talking of the people was a sustained murmur from which now and then a few intelligible words escaped: a greeting, some bit of raillery, a reprimand to a horse, an oath.
- The raillery of the two main characters lacks any real emotional context.
- Apparently, it therefore equates to humorous ridicule in the general sense, or good-honoured raillery.
- In all seriousness, and raillery aside, it was and is inspiring to know that a site like this can be so successful and have such a loyal following.
- Won't this type of biting raillery create enemies for you when it is published?
- Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
- New Australians were treated with wary raillery.
- There was laughter and raillery as he came aboard dripping, but Armand allowed the incident to be treated as a joke.
- Passions ran high as raillery at the religious orders, and attacks on collaborationist elites found expression in personal correspondence and in the press.
Synonyms teasing, good-humoured mockery, chaff, banter, ragging, badinage, japing
OriginMid 17th century: from French raillerie, from railler ‘to rail’ (see rail). |