54 adjectives to describe pleasantry

The Lower School was in a fever heat of excitement, and it is quite possible that the little pleasantries which have just been alluded to were occasioned by difference of opinion on the one absorbing topic of the day.

But the merry monarch saw no good reason why the muse of comedy should be compelled to "dwell in decencies for ever," and did not feel at all degraded when enjoying a gross pleasantry, or profane witticism, in company with the mixed mass of a popular audience.

"I would not have let fallen an unseasonable pleasantry in the venerable presence of Misery, to be entitled to all the wit that ever Rabelais scattered.

It may be that the worthy Abbé, after thinking over seriously what was intended to be a mere pleasantry, concluded that Madame the Duchess was right, and that he possessed some talent in the direction of love.

Though usually grave, and even aweful, in his deportment, he possessed uncommon and peculiar powers of wit and humour; he frequently indulged himself in colloquial pleasantry; and the heartiest merriment was often enjoyed in his company; with this great advantage, that as it was entirely free from any poisonous tincture of vice or impiety, it was salutary to those who shared in it.

The manner in which Wyatt received this harmless pleasantry convinced me, at once, that he was mad.

Knickerbocker's History of New York; edited by Anne Carroll Moore, with pictorial pleasantries by James Daugherty.

The one, that your charming pleasantry had a better subject than that you find for it in this dialoguethe other, that my situation were not such, as must too often damp that pleasantry in you, and will not permit me to enjoy it, as I used to do.

This man, who is much the subject of conversation at present, was Public Accuser to the Revolutionary Tribunalan office which, at best, in this instance, only served to give an air of regularity to assassination: but, by a sort of genius in turpitude, he contrived to render it odious beyond its original perversion, in giving to the most elaborate and revolting cruelties a turn of spontaneous pleasantry, or legal procedure.

This saying, which might pass only for an innocent pleasantry, or even for an oblique compliment to his father, was however regarded as a symptom of his aspiring temper; and his conduct soon after justified the conjecture.

He was growing corpulent and scant of breath, with hanging lips and heavy eyelids; he no longer took care of his person as formerly, but went about slipshod, and indulged in the coarsest pleasantries.

The continual dripping! Am Iforgive the bitterness of the questionbut am I a stone, love?" He asked it with a hollow laugh, and at the same time with a glance challenged Sam's approval for his desperate pleasantry.

Of his dry pleasantry in conversation there are many instances recorded.

It rather served to bring them into fuller relief, and even to render more striking those bright natural traitsthe sportive humor, the ready mother wit, the facetious pleasantry, the keen sense of the ridiculous, and the wondrous story-telling giftwhich made him a most delightful companion to young and old, to the wise and the unlettered alike.

" The features of the governess had already lost their forced pleasantry, in a shade of grave reflection and her eye was evidently fastened on vacancy us she answered, to all appearance like one who thought aloud.

In the same way, it is sheer gross irrelevancy to speak of Britain as an island, unless indeed the word be understood as a mere modus loquendi arising out of a rather poor geographical pleasantry.

Dreadful anecdotes were current of his grim pleasantries and of his inflexible ferocity.

For a long time, the two men sat moodily smoking in their dark nook, watching the occasional passers-by; listening to the subdued laughter and soft voices of the women, the guttural pleasantries of the men.

It's a pity, but the best of us must wear out some day" This superficially heartless pleasantry he would deliver with a sweeping wink at Henry and his four girls; but Mrs. Flower would see nothing to laugh at, for humour was not her strong point.

In sparkling wit, keen sarcasm, and humorous pleasantry, it is rivalled only by another volume, entitled "The Fudge Family in Paris," published in 1818, the hero of which is a distinguished poet, and a zealous supporter of the present administration.

As to this strangerquickly, thy mask and cloakdepart as if thou wert merely a friend bent on some of the idle pleasantries of the hour.

"What news from bas, old fellow?" To all which ingenious pleasantries my companion replied in kindintroducing me at the same time to two or three of the nearest speakers.

Callisthenes does this with inimitable Pleasantry.

I suppose that was an involuntary, instinctive pleasantry.

I suppose that was an involuntary, instinctive pleasantry.

54 adjectives to describe  pleasantry