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raillery
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synonyms: badinage, persiflage ???
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Definition:good-humored teasing
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During the game Darya Alexandrovna was not enjoying herself. She did not like the light tone of raillery that was kept up all the time between Vassenka Veslovsky and Anna, and the unnaturalness altogether of grown-up people, all alone without children, playing at a child's game.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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Howls of delight greeted this sally, and the raillery continued, following Jamie down the hall to the kitchen and back up the stairs.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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The captain understood my raillery very well, and merrily replied that he did not observe my stomach so good, although I had fasted all day; and, continuing in his mirth, protested he would have gladly given a hundred pounds to have seen my closet in the eagle's bill, and afterwards in its fall from so great a height into the sea;
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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