pleasantry
[noun]
Synonyms: joke, badinage, banter, jest, quip, witticism

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pleas‧ant‧ry /ˈplezəntri/ noun (plural pleasantries) [countable usually plural] formal
[Word Family: adjective: pleasant ≠ unpleasant, pleased ≠ displeased, pleasing ≠ displeasing, pleasurable; adverb: pleasantly ≠ unpleasantly, pleasingly, pleasurably; noun: pleasantry, pleasure ≠ displeasure; verb: please ≠ displease]
things that you say to someone in order to be polite, but which are not very important:
Stephen and Mr Illing exchanged pleasantries.

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