PLEASANTRY meaning: Polite remark, often socially obligatory

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pleasantry: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pleasantry: Merriam-Webster
pleasantry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
pleasantry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
pleasantry: Collins English Dictionary
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Pleasantry, pleasantry: Wordnik
pleasantry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
pleasantry: Wiktionary
pleasantry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
pleasantry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
pleasantry: Infoplease Dictionary
Pleasantry, pleasantry: Dictionary.com
pleasantry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
pleasantry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
pleasantry: Rhymezone
Pleasantry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
pleasantry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
pleasantry: FreeDictionary.org
pleasantry: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Pleasantry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (sometimes proscribed) A casual, courteous remark.
▸ noun:  A playful remark; a jest.
▸ noun:  (dated) Anything that promotes pleasure or merriment.

Opposite:

unpleasant, disagreeable, unpleasantness

Types:

small talk, chitchat, banter, patter, chit-chat, gossip, scuttlebutt, more...

Adjectives:

little, much, mere, harmless, light, innocent, grim, easy, coarse, usual, humoured

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