pleasantry

I was never a fan of pleasantries because they seemed like a waste of time.

After some pleasantries, I explained that I couldn’t help with her moving boxes because I was about to conduct a highly sensitive business transaction.

In series two, we see how Lumon's disorientating, unforgiving corporate culture and its deceptive pleasantries affects those with power too.

They greeted each other with the clinking of their gold-coloured swords and exchanged pleasantries.

Normally, a band works its way up to the goosebump moments, but why waste time with pleasantries when we’re all neighbors here, right?