raillery

The first Shakespearean phrase I underlined during this period was “skirmish of wit,” about the raillery between Beatrice and Benedick, which inspired a lifelong expectation that romance must include snark.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2021

The roguery and raillery are in place, and he has a pleasing way with a song, but his instincts for clowning undermine his suavity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2019

Advertisement Advertisement Often, though, their teasing doesn’t feel different from the family raillery of many a sitcom.

From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2015

Old pals, they knew each other’s foibles and weaknesses all too well and exploited them in an ongoing raillery of inside jokes, ragging, and general good-natured BS.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2013

I saw their eyes bespeaking confusion at this raillery, sorrow to hear our liberator mocked thus, and anxiety at what His Lordship’s uncertainty might mean.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

No person, no moment is safe from his railleries.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

That can be observed any evening, and yet it would be difficult to recapitulate all the railleries and all the anger caused by so natural an audacity.

From The French Impressionists (1860-1900) by Camille Mauclair

This would confirm him in his error, and call forth new railleries.

From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown

Despite Diogenes’ railleries, Cicero decides in favor of Antipater and the more rigorous solution.

From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Paul Janet