29 December 2016
raillery
[rey-luh-ree]
noun, plural railleries.
1. good-humored ridicule; banter.
2. a bantering remark.
Origin of raillery
French
1645-1655; < French raillerie, equivalent to Middle French raill (er) to rail2+ -erie -ery
Synonyms
1. jesting, joking, badinage, chaff, pleasantry.
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Examples from the Web for raillery
Historical Examples
For my own part, I thought pride in his case an improper subject for raillery.
Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9)
Samuel Richardson
Poussin studied nature with a minuteness that often exposed him to raillery.
Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, No. 462
Various
His powers of wit and raillery never failed him, even to the Deathbed wit last.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year
Edwin Emerson
Her raillery, like the raillery of princes, was without fear of retort.
Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10)
Maria Edgeworth
He had disdained to reply further than by shaking his wise old head, but had omitted no precaution because of her raillery.
Dorothy’s House Party
Evelyn Raymond
I was a little afraid of his raillery, and of the quickness of his observation.
Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10)
Maria Edgeworth
He, he, I swear though, your raillery provokes me to a smile.
The Comedies of William Congreve
William Congreve
Notwithstanding this raillery, all that was said did take place.
The Memoirs of Count Grammont, Complete
Anthony Hamilton
He ignored her raillery, and told her what he thought of a courage so fine and ready.
A Daughter of the Dons
William MacLeod Raine
If your mood incline to raillery you’ll find your match in some lad of the stables.
The Shame of Motley
Raphael Sabatini
Anagram
rare lily
rely rail
Today’s quote
Do not judge others by your standards, for everyone is making their way home, in the way they know best.
– Leon Brown
On this day
29 December – the fifth day of the 12 days of Christmas (Western Christianity).
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29 December 1998 – Former Khmer Rouge leaders apologise for the Pol Pot led genocide in Kampuchea (now known as Cambodia), which killed 1 million people between 1975 and 1979.