Definitions
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- adverb In a
bantering manner.
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- adverb in a bantering fashion
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Examples
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Perhaps "-- banteringly --" we might even discuss the question of those notes of hand again -- later on!
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“If you are going to champion Father Goriot, and set up for his responsible editor into the bargain, you had need be a crack shot and know how to handle the foils,” he said, banteringly.
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Once in those days Mark Twain banteringly offered to trade businesses with Mackay.
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“Ah! my dear, I am afraid you and your monk are wasting your powder,” said Prince Andrew banteringly yet tenderly.
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He was banteringly urged by the meeting's Thai moderator to encourage the US sportswear maker Nike to start marketing its own contraceptive to help promote anti-HIV practices among the young.
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"I persuaded my friend to come here to meet you, but he didn't know he was coming to a Church service, Father Ruthvere," she said banteringly.
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"Eh, Brother, don't you mean any and all capitalist running dogs are smelly, of which the Noble House and the House of Chen are chief and dung heavy?" he said banteringly.
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"Eh, Brother, don't you mean any and all capitalist running dogs are smelly, of which the Noble House and the House of Chen are chief and dung heavy?" he said banteringly.
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“It was your mistake, but I had to suffer for it,” Chris threw back banteringly.
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“It was your mistake, but I had to suffer for it,” Chris threw back banteringly.
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July 29, 2008