raillery
21raillery — UK [ˈreɪlərɪ] / US noun [uncountable] literary friendly jokes, criticism, or insults …
22raillery — rail•ler•y [[t]ˈreɪ lə ri[/t]] n. pl. ler•ies 1) good humored ridicule; banter 2) a bantering remark • Etymology: 1645–55; < F raillerie …
23raillery — /ˈreɪləri / (say rayluhree) noun (plural railleries) 1. good humoured ridicule; banter. 2. a bantering remark. {French raillerie. See rail2} …
24raillery — n. (pl. ies) 1 good humoured ridicule; rallying. 2 an instance of this. Etymology: F raillerie (as RAIL(2)) …
25fool — fool1 /foohl/, n. 1. a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense. 2. a professional jester, formerly kept by a person of royal or noble rank for amusement: the court fool. 3. a person who has been tricked or deceived into… …
26banter — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. jest, chaff, badinage. See wit, ridicule. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. teasing, joking, raillery, badinage; see fun , ridicule , teasing . v. Syn. tease, jest (with), kid*; see joke , ridicule . III …
27badinage — badinage, persiflage, raillery denote a kind of banter. Badinage is applied to banter that is playful and delicate, persiflage to banter that is derisive but not cutting, and raillery to banter that is keen and often sarcastic in its ridicule… …
28Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury — (26 February 1671 – 4 February 1713) was an English politician, philosopher and writer. Contents …
29joke — jokeless, adj. jokingly, adv. /johk/, n., v., joked, joking. n. 1. something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him …
30satire — /sat uyeur/, n. 1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. 2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule. 3 …
