raillery

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

And he pursued him with railleries even into the depths of the tomb, recalling with self-satisfaction his oddities, emphasizing his absurdities, and pointing out his defects.

From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. by Guy de Maupassant

And Aratus also wrote letters against Cleomenes; and bitter revilings and railleries were current on both hands, not sparing even their marriages and wives.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough

He adapted the ancient satires of the Tuscan and Oscan stage to the closet, by refining their grossness, softening their asperity, and introducing railleries borrowed from the Greek poets, with whom he was familiar.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop