raillery
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Some of the raillery, while funny, feels like overkill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2017
The secret of his comedy was in his delivery, which was a blizzard of mockery, raillery and mayhem.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2017
Mr. O’Brien, as the admittedly and entertainingly ornery Jack, brings the energy of mild raillery to the proceedings.
From New York Times ● Jul. 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
"You beguile me, my dear," Mrs. Beale said, smiling; "but I will not listen to your wicked railleries."
From The Heavenly Twins by Madame Sarah Grand
She publicly reprimanded you for your indiscretion, and your marked preference for her, always offensive to other women, has exposed you to the railleries of the Marquise, her sister-in-law.
From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by William Hassell Overton
A lady who was often the subject of his sportive railleries, observed, that no one who saw the kind expression of his eye could feel wounded.
From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby
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