Crossword-Solution: RAILLERY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Raillery | n. | Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment. |
We have 44 clues for the answer “RAILLERY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| rallying | 1 answer |
| Good-humored teasing | 1 answer |
| Good-humored banter | 1 answer |
| Dicacity | 1 answer |
| Friendly teasing | 2 answers |
| Joshing | 3 answers |
| BANTER BUSINESS | 10 answers |
| Iron-y? | 18 answers |
| chaff | 21 answers |
| Badinage | 26 answers |
| pleasantry | 32 answers |
| Comedy __ | 38 answers |
| cartoon | 38 answers |
| merriness | 39 answers |
| facetiousness | 40 answers |
| joviality | 44 answers |
| Travesty | 44 answers |
| snigger | 45 answers |
| Satire | 47 answers |
| Parody | 47 answers |
| Kidding! | 47 answers |
| Titter | 47 answers |
| esprit | 49 answers |
| Spoof | 49 answers |
| Exultation | 50 answers |
| Quip | 51 answers |
| Hurrah! | 52 answers |
| Banter | 53 answers |
| chortle | 54 answers |
| chuckle | 55 answers |
| Burlesque | 55 answers |
| Recreation | 57 answers |
| Soul | 59 answers |
| caricature | 59 answers |
| Prank | 59 answers |
| Gladness | 60 answers |
| Lightness | 66 answers |
| Joking | 66 answers |
| ardour | 71 answers |
| Mirth | 74 answers |
| Ridicule | 81 answers |
| Essence | 85 answers |
| Tease | 91 answers |
| Show | 106 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with RAILLERY (5)
Marianne was vexed at it for her sister’s sake, and turned her eyes towards Elinor to see how she bore these attacks, with an earnestness which gave Elinor far more pain than could arise from such common-place raillery as Mrs.
There's the Spanish cropping out, after all.” Speechless with chagrin, the priest bundled the cocks into the basket and catching up the valise, took himself abruptly away, almost running till he had put himself out of hearing of Annixter's raillery.
Pope proposed to marry the heroine of his misadventure afforded a fair mark for raillery, no doubt, but Gay, in common with the run of educated England in 1718, did not aspire to be facetious at Pope's expense.
She moved, she sat down and looked at me, and the kind of mocking smile came into her eyes that I knew was the forerunner of raillery.
There were excellent ragouts, and the prince made use of the cat's paw to taste them; but he sometimes pulled his paw too roughly, and Bluet, not understanding raillery, began to mew and be quite out of patience.
Quotes with RAILLERY (3)
In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success
Humour is the only test of gravity and gravity of humour for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs at himself but the Americans are nationally sensitive and cannot endure that good-humoured raillery which jests at their weaknesses and foibles.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1974–2022).