Antonyms for bantering

Grammar : Verb

Spell : ban-ter

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbæn tər

Definition of bantering

Origin : 1670s, origin uncertain; said by Swift to be a word from London street slang. Related: Bantered; bantering. The noun is from 1680s.

verb tease

Example sentences :

Now and then, he laughed in a merry way, as if he were bantering her out of something.
Extract from : « To be Read at Dusk » by Charles Dickens

This bantering is most pointed if we assume that Rosaline was dark rather than fair.
Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris

But when the last case had been taken out, Max dropped his bantering manner.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Gilbert's voice had changed from its bantering note to a note of resolve.
Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine

She laughed with an affectionate air, and spoke to him in a friendly, bantering way.
Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola

Then he dropped the easy, bantering manner with a suddenness that was startling.
Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini

Hippias, catching the words, exclaimed in a bantering tone: What!
Extract from : « The Memorabilia » by Xenophon

She was cross and out of temper, and bore my bantering badly.
Extract from : « The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) » by Charles James Lever

"With the child," said Lingard, disregarding the bantering tone.
Extract from : « The Rescue » by Joseph Conrad

Then he turned to me with a bantering, quizzical light in his eyes.
Extract from : « Dwellers in the Hills » by Melville Davisson Post

Synonyms for bantering

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