joshing

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The Searchers this ain't: Eastwood plays the bigotry for laughs and as a kind of time-honored American joshing, all as a prelude to the inevitable love-thy-neighbor conversion.

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  • Everyone had enjoyed the evening: the usual joshing, frank talk, and exchange of news. —  Braun_lilian_Jackson_16_The_Cat_Who_Came_To_Breakfast
  • Just joshing, Abraham, God was only testing your faith, the angel informs him. —  The Diamondback
  • Certainly his late-breaking claims that he's angry about A.I.G. employees 'bonuses-delivered recently inside a garland of good-natured joshing, from Jay Leno's guest chair, and again last week at a press conference whose over-all purpose was to project steadiness-would not have come across as expressions of anger to anybody who happened to be watching with the sound turned off. —  The New Yorker
  • Martin Luther King Jr. And of course there is Sinatra, in all his dangerous glamour - joshing with —  GreenCine Daily
  • The Searchers this ain't: Eastwood plays the bigotry for laughs and as a kind of time-honored American joshing, all as a prelude to the inevitable love-thy-neighbor conversion. —  NashvilleScene.com
 

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