Crossword-Solution: PERSIFLAGE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Persiflage | n. | Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “PERSIFLAGE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Flippant conversation. | 1 answer |
| Flippant speech. | 1 answer |
| Frivolous talk | 1 answer |
| cross talk | 3 answers |
| Backchat | 5 answers |
| flippancy | 24 answers |
| Badinage | 26 answers |
| teasing | 28 answers |
| Derision | 33 answers |
| Banter | 53 answers |
| Raillery | 55 answers |
| Witticism | 69 answers |
| Ridicule | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PERSIFLAGE (5)
Incident of the French Camp: 'Smiling, the rat fell dead.'" Bock paid no heed to this persiflage, but prowled the front end of the cellar, looking upward in curious agitation.
How did Miss Daisy Miller know that there was a charmer in Geneva? Winterbourne, who denied the existence of such a person, was quite unable to discover, and he was divided between amazement at the rapidity of her induction and amusement at the frankness of her persiflage.
Jeering at the White Logic, I go out to join my guests at table, and with assumed seriousness to discuss the current magazines and the silly doings of the world's day, whipping every trick and ruse of controversy through all the paces of paradox and persiflage.
While indulging in a little airy persiflage the girls had a great little trick of pursing their mouths into rosebud shapes over their soda straws, and casting their eyes upward at Eddie.
Were you, then, so chivalric? Was it to have been a second romaunt of 'King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid?'" He met her look, and saw the fierce demand through the softness and persiflage.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1958–1990).