pleasantries

Example Sentences

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Pleasantries weren’t the point of the conference call with Mick Cronin.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2025

Pleasantries have set a positive tone to the meetings so far, but behind the smiles and the pagentary, there is real pressure on Japan.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025

Pleasantries dispatched, Ms. Somers managed a vampy strut — as vampy as you can strut with a crutch, anyway — down a hallway that features “wellnes” offerings so “modrn” that extraneous letters are scarcely needed.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2020

Pleasantries are pleasant for a reason; hearing the unvarnished truth from every casual friend would be exhausting.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2015

And while you cruise and lay down the same, and indeed during all that here ensueth of Directions for your following, avoid foolish Conversation and sottish Pleasantries with those about you;

From The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note by Prime-Stevenson, Edward