Pleasantries is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PLEASANTRIES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• PLEASANTRY, a humorous act or remark
• an inconsequential remark made as part of a polite conversation
• a mild joke
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a humorous act or remark; jest

Words related to PLEASANTRIES

pleasantry15

Words that contain PLEASANTRIES

unpleasantries16

How to use PLEASANTRIES in a sentence

• Among the pleasantries of this lively volume are some biting attacks upon us, particularly upon our utter incapacity of speaking English.
• That it proved crowded and full of smoke did not trouble him at all, nor did the admiring pleasantries which the splendor of his apparel immediately called forth.
• Dreadful anecdotes were current of his grim pleasantries and of his inflexible ferocity.
• He was about to give vent to further pleasantries when he was stopped by the mysterious behaviour of Mr.
• He told over again some of his old reminiscences, and indulged in a few of his customary pleasantries.
• Hubert had protected him before now against the brutality of the boys, who, when they were not playing nap, divided their pleasantries between him and the decrepit prize-fighter.
• Now, however, he rarely indulges in such pleasantries.
• She began her pleasantries by complaining that my doors were trivial.
• This must be classed among the thousand pleasantries of the following chapter, the title of which ought to make lovers smile as well as husbands.
• Many long nights I passed without sleep, repeating jests and pleasantries, to remove shyness, and make her familiar.
• He had already exchanged pleasantries with the conductor, and he had chatted for twenty minutes with a farmer, who had gone back at last to the smoking-car.
• The matron became so cheerful that she smiled as she looked at her husband, and allowed herself some little pleasantries of time-honored acceptance in such simple families.
• He had laughed, but he was still sad and sick at heart and somehow these pleasantries jarred on him.
• The part of Baubo was to relieve the gloom of the Goddess, not by the harmless pleasantries of Iambe, in the Hymn, but by obscene gestures.
• Some of us knew some of them, and in such happy case there followed interchange of pretty pleasantries.
• He has made the most of a fancied resemblance to me, and in many delightful ways has indulged in pleasantries based on it.
• We feel that Johnson must have been right in declaring that though Burke was always in search of pleasantries, he never made a good joke in his life.
• In few men are united, as happily as they were in him, a steady application to the business of the world, and an almost unrestrained indulgence in its harmless pleasantries.
• I must confess that these pleasantries of mine did not entirely reassure me.
• He could not bear that, and he could not bear the questions and the pleasantries.
• The scholar dwells on the grotesque pleasantries of the sarcastic Aristophanes, though the Athenian manners, and his exotic personages, have long vanished.
• The personal pleasantries on his own performers, and the hints for plots, and the sketches of character which the poet incidentally throws out, form a perfect dramatic novelty.
• He reared his tail and made it gleam in the moonshine, and practised a hundred other pleasantries, during which no turkey could have dared to go to sleep.
• When, at a supper-party that evening, the poet journalist explained his position to his friends in the fast set, they drowned his scruples in champagne, iced with pleasantries.

Similar words containing PLEASANTRIE without suffix s

unpleasantries16

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