pleasantry
Noun
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Noun
pleasantry
- A casual, courteous remark.
- A playful remark; a jest.
- 2014, Daniel Taylor, England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard (in The Guardian, 18 November 2014)
- Charlie Mulgrew could easily have been shown two yellow cards by a stricter referee and amid all the usual Anglo-Scottish pleasantries, the two sets of fans put an awful lot of effort into trying to drown out one another’s national anthems.
- 2014, Daniel Taylor, England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard (in The Guardian, 18 November 2014)
- (dated) Anything that promotes pleasure or merriment.
- Russian: любезность
- Russian: шпилька
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