Bant
[bænt]
Examples
- There were purpose and feeling, banter and scoff, playing, mingled, on her mobile lineaments. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But he is incapable of defending them in a discussion, and vainly tries to cover his confusion with banter and insolence. Plato. The Republic.
- But Archer, meeting his eyes, saw the filial light under their banter. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- She smiled as she spoke, letting her eyes rest on his in a way that took the edge from her banter and made him suddenly malleable to her will. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Not much, I am sorry to say, answered the Vicar, accustomed to parry Mr. Toller's banter about his belief in the new medical light. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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