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good-natured teasing or exchanging of clever remarks
  • Luke had to put up with a lot of raillery from his sister the first time he asked a girl for a date

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“Raillery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raillery. Accessed 8 Dec. 2021.

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