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Word Meanings - RAILLERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment. Let raillery be without malice or heat. B. Jonson. Studies employed on low objects; the very naming of them is sufficient to turn them into raillery. Addison.

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  • SARCASM
    A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest. The sarcasms of those critics who imagine our art to be a matter of inspiration. Sir J. Reynolds. Syn. -- Satire;
  • FLATTER
    1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
  • DISRESPECTABILITY
    Want of respectability. Thackeray.
  • RIDICULER
    One who ridicules.
  • CHAFFERY
    Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
  • TAUNTER
    One who taunts.
  • BADINAGE
    Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." Warburton.
  • FLATTERY
    The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
  • SARCASMOUS
    Sarcastic. "Sarcasmous scandal." Hubidras.
  • SPORTLESS
    Without sport or mirth; joyless.
  • SNEER
    1. To show contempt by turning up the nose, or by a particular facial expression. 2. To inssinuate contempt by a covert expression; to speak derisively. I could be content to be a little sneared at. Pope. 3. To show mirth awkwardly. Tatler. Syn.
  • CHAFFINCH
    A bird of Europe , having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch.
  • JEERER
    A scoffer; a railer; a mocker.
  • SPORTING
    Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house
  • SPORTIVE
    Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
  • DISRESPECT
    Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy. Impatience of bearing the least affront or disrespect. Pope.
  • SPORTAL
    Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. "Sportal arms." Dryden.
  • RALLY
    To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
  • FLATTERINGLY
    With flattery.
  • SATIRE
    a dish filled with various kinds of fruits, food composed of various ingredients, a mixture, a medley, fr. satur full of food, sated, fr. sat, satis, enough: cf. F. satire. See Sate, Sad, a., and 1. A composition, generally poetical, holding up
  • DISPORT
    Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.
  • SUTURALLY
    In a sutural manner.
  • BEFLATTER
    To flatter excessively.
  • MISTRANSPORT
    To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
  • CENTRALLY
    In a central manner or situation.
  • PASTORALLY
    1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.
  • TRANSPORTING
    That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
  • TRANSPORTAL
    Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
  • ORALLY
    1. In an oral manner. Tillotson. 2. By, with, or in, the mouth; as, to receive the sacrament orally. Usher.
  • TRANSPORTABILITY
    The quality or state of being transportable.
  • LATERALLY
    By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
  • LITERALLY
    1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh. 2. With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally.

 

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