pleasantry 的定义
plural pleas·ant·ries.
- good-humored teasing; banter.
- a humorous or jesting remark.
- a courteous social remark used to initiate or facilitate a conversation: to exchange pleasantries.
- a humorous action.
pleasantry 近义词
nice remark
更多pleasantry例句
- It wasn’t one of these pleasantry kinds of meetings whatsoever.
- To start, he exchanged pleasantries with the boy before attempting to debunk his testimony.
- The men exchanged pleasantries, Buzbee recalled, and then Buzbee made an offer.
- I joined him and, after some pleasantries, raised the subject.
- Vargas, suspecting the conversation would turn into a recruitment pitch, stopped responding after exchanging pleasantries.
- But this pleasantry, excellent as pleasantry, hardly deserves serious refutation.
- It is a continental form of pleasantry, and an artistic experiment in blasphemy which is taken seriously by the unwise.
- She looked up with a sort of half smile, as if she suspected some pleasantry of which she had not yet detected the drift.
- "I think there is no necessity for carrying a pleasantry into our private life," she said, in a perfectly amiable voice.
- This was evidently local pleasantry, for the old man cackled over it, and his cronies joined in with gusto.