banterer

Example Sentences

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Those words might be applied to the world’s favorite fictional contemporary lover, fighter and banterer, James Bond.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2015

I’m normally a verbose text banterer who carefully crafts and revises witty text replies to friends.

From Slate • Jun. 15, 2015

He regained his health, as thorough a banterer as before, thinking life beautiful, and not seeing why it should not last for ever.

From L'Assommoir by Zola, Émile

Indeed, sir," answered Jones, "I scorn the character of a banterer.

From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry

He was a capital mimic, an incorrigible banterer, and in any other company than that of the woman he loved, and her family, the merriest and most jocular soul alive.

From Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 by Morford, Henry