Crossword-Solution: PLEASANTRY 10 letters, 35 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Word Word Type Definition
Pleasantry n. That which denotes or promotes pleasure or good humor;
cheerfulness; gayety; merriment; especially, an agreeable playfulness
in conversation; a jocose or humorous remark; badinage.

We have 35 clues for the answer “PLEASANTRY”

Clue Answers
A jest. 1 answer
"That dress suits you," e.g. 1 answer
Witticism or banter 1 answer
An agreeable remark 1 answer
Polite social remark 1 answer
Humorous remark 4 answers
comicality 7 answers
comity 10 answers
Wordplay 11 answers
flippancy 24 answers
Comedy __ 38 answers
cartoon 38 answers
waggery 39 answers
facetiousness 40 answers
joviality 44 answers
Travesty 44 answers
Mockery 45 answers
Parody 47 answers
Satire 47 answers
Spoof 49 answers
Banter 53 answers
Farce 53 answers
Raillery 55 answers
Burlesque 55 answers
Wit 56 answers
Recreation 57 answers
caricature 59 answers
Gladness 60 answers
wittiness 60 answers
Jest 64 answers
Joking 66 answers
AMUSEMENT ___ 72 answers
Piece 74 answers
Frolic 77 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
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Sentences with PLEASANTRY (5)

The form of bicycle he rode long ago became antiquated, but in the humor of his pleasantry is a quality which does not grow old.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
And these are not the only evils, I said--there are several lesser ones: In such a state of society the master fears and flatters his scholars, and the scholars despise their masters and tutors; young and old are all alike; and the young man is on a level with the old, and is ready to compete with him in word or deed; and old men condescend to the young and are full of pleasantry and gaiety; they are loth to be thought morose and authoritative, and therefore they adopt the manners of the young.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008
Corey," replied Miss Kingsbury; "but we reflected that he probably wouldn't talk with them at all; he would make them keep still to be sketched, and forget all about their wants." Upon the theory that this was a fair return for Corey's pleasantry, the others laughed again.
The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 2008
Other overseers, how brutal soever they might be, were, at times, inclined to gain favor with the slaves, by indulging a little pleasantry; but Gore was never known to be guilty of any such weakness.
My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1995
One day, however, a deaf and seemingly senseless lad from a distant village brought him a belated telegram; and Glengyle, in his acrid pleasantry, gave him a new farthing.
The Innocence of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1995

Quotes with PLEASANTRY (3)

She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march to their destiny by catch-words. The armies are full of pleasant and pious folk. But they have yielded to the only enemy that matters — the enemy within. They have sinned against passion and truth, and vain will be their strife after virtue. As the years pass, they are censured. Their pleasantry and their piety show cracks, their wit becomes cy…
E.M. Forster A Room with a View
The heart under your heart is not the one you shareso readily so full of pleasantry & tendernessit is a single blackberry at the heart of a brambleor else some larger fruit heavy the size of a fist
Craig Arnold
The Eternal Smiler strode forth, handing her one, as well. I considered the psychology behind her smile and formed the conclusion that, despite its obvious coating of pleasantry, it was an understandable psychological decision.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney The Rose and the Sword
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Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 5 times in crossword archives (1952–2008).