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Definition of Pleasantries

Pleasantries
Pleasantry Pleas"ant*ry, n.; pl. Pleasantries. [F. plaisanterie. See Pleasant.] That which denotes or promotes pleasure or good humor; cheerfulness; gayety; merriment; especially, an agreeable playfulness in conversation; a jocose or humorous remark; badinage. The grave abound in pleasantries, the dull in repartees and points of wit. --Addison. The keen observation and ironical pleasantry of a finished man of the world. --Macaulay.

Meaning of Pleasantries from wikipedia

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- not madness but wisdom that he uttered. — The Turkish Jester or The Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi Azerbaijani scholars Mammadhuseyn Tahmasib [az]...
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- Stradlin, and Steven Adler). With U.P.O., he released two albums, No Pleasantries (2000) and The Heavy (2004), while the Hollywood Rose demos, recorded...
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- In every cartoon, he and Sam Sheepdog punch a timeclock and exchange pleasantries, go to work, stop what they are doing to take a lunch break, go back...
- everyday conversational exchanges, as in, for instance, exchanges of social pleasantries that do not s**** or offer information of intrinsic value but rather signal...
- 16 February 1766, Hume wrote to the Marquise de Brabantane: "The only pleasantry I permitted myself in connection with the pretended letter of the King...