Vocabulary Word
Word: bantering
Definition: joking talk; good-naturedly ridiculing; N.V. banter
Definition: joking talk; good-naturedly ridiculing; N.V. banter
Sentences Containing 'bantering'
Foremost through the sparkling sea shoots on the gay, embattled, bantering bow, but only to drag dark Ahab after it, where he broods within his sternward cabin, builded over the dead water of the wake, and further on, hunted by its wolfish gurglings.
But ere he entered his cabin, light, unnatural, half-bantering, yet most piteous sound was heard.
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::: bombastic - pompous; using inflated language
::: replete - fully filled; filled to the brim or to the point of being stuffed; abundantly supplied; Ex. report replete with errors
::: corrode - destroy or wear away gradually by chemical action (over a long period)
::: misadventure - mischance; ill luck; Ex. death by misadventure
::: sacrilegious - desecrating; profane; N. sacrilege: desecration, misuse, or theft of something sacred
::: trifle - something of little importance or value; small amount; Ex. a trifle; V: treat without seriousness; flirt
::: egress - exit; opening for going out; act of going out; OP. ingress
::: sear - burn the surface of; char or burn; brand; parch; cause (a plant) to wither
