What does pleasantries mean?
Pleasantries means plural of pleasantry.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
plural of pleasantry.
exchanging pleasantries
Signora Caterina thought it could. Weak, yet cunning—vain, yet conscious of having outlived her attractions—with one of those tempers which we conceive to be the true interpretation of the old fairy tale, where out of the mouth of the party proceeded snakes, toads, locusts, and other pleasantries.
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Pleasantries means plural of pleasantry.
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exchanging pleasantries
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