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pleasantry

ple zuhn tree
  • n  an agreeable or amusing remark
  Usage(s)

  • This little charade is just a conversational pleasantry.
  • He accepted my outstretched palm without squeezing, and dismissed my advance with a short pleasantry.
  • The fact is, you have been made a victim of what the French call 'a mystification,' in other words a piece of undergraduate pleasantry.

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