Banter is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BANTER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to exchange mildly teasing remarks
• exchange remarks in a good-humoured teasing way
• tease jokingly
• To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.
• To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like.
• To delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest.
• To challenge or defy to a match.
• be silly or tease one another
NOUN:
• the playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks
• The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.
• light teasing repartee
• teasing or joking conversation

Words related to BANTER

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Words that contain BANTER

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How to use BANTER in a sentence

• Both he and his colleague knew well when to drop the good-natured banter they delighted in.
• The peasants, with merry chatter and banter, carried water and wood and all that had been brought in the carts into the larger cabin.
• Harold procured his, and thrust his arms into it, while we were attacked on all sides by a flood of banter.
• It is a short-sighted and one-sighted earnestness that despises the wit and banter of society, and affects the isolation and grandeur of pure thought.
• Outnumbered ten to one, their voices rang out in shrill banter and delirious laughter above the rumble of men.
• George Dawson at a little dinner proposed his health, and in doing so indulged in some characteristic banter and chaff.
• And thus it was that, seeing Tommy Dye riding toward him, he had only a grave word of greeting, without any of the merry banter that the adventurer had come to expect.
• Laughter and banter filled the forest as they squatted or lay down to wait for the feast.
• He was in the habit occasionally of going down to the kitchen to indulge in a smoke and a piece of banter with the servants.
• Zuan Venier had not joined in the banter, which seemed to him to be of the most atrocious taste.
• His character was not in the least degree soured by neglect or fretted by banter.
• The younger ones at the board found it more than difficult to turn back on him his guns of raillery and banter.
• The European members, on the other hand, showed themselves invariably courteous and good-tempered, and not a few awkward corners were turned by a little good-humoured banter.
• And for all her light banter, I would rather put my trust in her than any Venus girl I had ever met.
• Spying Adam Kraus, they rushed to him with noisy banter and laughter that had a shrill edge.
• In due course of time I received my answer, written on rose-colored paper, and expressed throughout in a tone of light, easy, feminine banter, which amused me in spite of myself.
• The banter which had served her with so much effect, which she had relied upon as her defensive weapon, was suddenly useless.
• I was so unskilled in this game of banter and flirtation that I was at a loss what to say.
• Well, well, you may banter as long as you please, but Height of Stature is commanding and majestick.
• To avoid comment and banter he put his book aside and forbade Susy to speak of it, explaining to her that he needed an interval of rest.
• There is something so odious in this trite and universal banter.
• The chief was riding his horse to and fro in front of his men, in order to banter me.
• I have known one stone placed in a dimly lighted corridor of a train productive of much merriment and harmless banter.
• A certain amount of perfectly good-humoured banter was levelled against these brand-new soldiers by their friends, and some fun poked at them about their riding.
• And Judith, feeding these wild border lads on scraps of chaff and banter, and retaining their absolute loyalty, was a sight worth seeing.
• And, moreover, the Marquise knew that as soon as people learned that the stranger was her cousin, they would suspend their banter and look twice before they condemned her.

Similar words containing BANT without suffix er

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