pleasantry

• "Let's have lunch" can be an empty pleasantry, and even if you make a date with a friend, it will be rescheduled three times before you both silently agree to forget about it altogether. —  Design Observer: Main Posts
• The groundwork of the pleasantry is the identity in form of the proper name with the common noun 'will.' —  A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
• The form of bicycle he rode long ago became antiquated, but in the humor of his pleasantry is a quality which does not grow old A. B. P I I thought the matter over, and concluded I could do it. —  What Is Man? and Other Essays
• Any face-to-face meeting is no more than a pleasantry, a formal introduction. —  The Fourth R
• He indulges in many fancies, such as the complaint of the letter S against T, which had in Attic been substituted for it Another kind of pleasantry which he brings forward is interesting, inasmuch as after having been in fashion among the grammarians, and reviving among the monks in the middle ages it has now fallen entirely out of use. —  History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour

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