Definition of Pleasantries

1. Noun. (plural of pleasantry) ¹

2. Noun. A short polite conversation before the serious conversation ¹

3. Noun. "Exchanging pleasantries" ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pleasantries

1. pleasantry [n] - See also: pleasantry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleasantries

pleads
pleaed
pleaing
pleas
pleas of the crown
pleasable
pleasance
pleasances
pleasant
pleasant-tasting
pleasanter
pleasantest
pleasantly
pleasantness
pleasantnesses
pleasantries (current term)
pleasantry
pleasaunce
pleasaunt
pleasauntly
please
please repeat after me
please say again
please sit down
please speak more slowly
please turn left
please turn right
pleased
pleased as Punch
pleased to meet you

Literary usage of Pleasantries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"pleasantries of Comedians To a certain comedian it was said, " When a cock riseth up in the early morning hours, why doth he hold one foot in the air? ..."

2. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"Hood, Keats and the Elizabethans: The Two Swans, Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, etc.; lyrics ; poems of pathos and terror ; pleasantries in verse and prose. ..."

3. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"... Art thou going to send down thine head to the oven to be baked ? "—" Book of Laughable Stories." pleasantries of Comedians ..."

4. The Blue Friars: Their Sayings and Doings ; Being a New Chapter in the by William Henry Kearley Wright (1889)
"That on a sample of the "pleasantries" being submitted for Mr. Fraser's ... The following is a complete list of " Blue Friar pleasantries" which appeared in ..."

5. The Romance of the American Theatre by Mary Caroline Crawford (1913)
"Many and noted were Cooke's little pleasantries of this kind while in society. In Baltimore a gentleman in whose home he was being entertained chanced to ..."

6. Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Thomas Brown, David Welsh (1860)
"... but for tine difference of the obvious meaning of the ex-1 pleasantries of wit, or of easier and less fv- pression of the speaker or writer, ..."

7. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"pleasantries of Comedians To a certain comedian it was said, " When a cock riseth up in the early morning hours, why doth he hold one foot in the air? ..."

8. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"Hood, Keats and the Elizabethans: The Two Swans, Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, etc.; lyrics ; poems of pathos and terror ; pleasantries in verse and prose. ..."

9. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"... Art thou going to send down thine head to the oven to be baked ? "—" Book of Laughable Stories." pleasantries of Comedians ..."

10. The Blue Friars: Their Sayings and Doings ; Being a New Chapter in the by William Henry Kearley Wright (1889)
"That on a sample of the "pleasantries" being submitted for Mr. Fraser's ... The following is a complete list of " Blue Friar pleasantries" which appeared in ..."

11. The Romance of the American Theatre by Mary Caroline Crawford (1913)
"Many and noted were Cooke's little pleasantries of this kind while in society. In Baltimore a gentleman in whose home he was being entertained chanced to ..."

12. Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Thomas Brown, David Welsh (1860)
"... but for tine difference of the obvious meaning of the ex-1 pleasantries of wit, or of easier and less fv- pression of the speaker or writer, ..."

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