(n.) Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment.
Example Sentences:
(1) This tremendous passage is of course a great deal more than the comedian's parting: "Bless you, you've been a wonderful audience, look after each other, thank you, good night," though it has some of the same effect, a moment of still truth in the midst of the carnival of wit and raillery.
(2) But receiving a lot of "only half good-natured raillery about being from the bush", allied to a period of depression, contributed to his leaving university in 1960 without completing his degree, to hitchhike round Australia.
Ribald
Definition:
(n./) A low, vulgar, brutal, foul-mouthed wretch; a lewd fellow.
(a.) Low; base; mean; filthy; obscene.
Example Sentences:
(1) Marketed as a ribald date movie with appeal to both genders, the film was maybe aiming for the crowd that embraced the Britcom I Give It a Year last February.
(2) This was greeted by loud and ribald laughter from Labour MPs.
(3) What with his flair for introspection, his gift for ribald parody, his excoriating candour, his contempt for 'phoneyness', his weakness for soliloquy and his desperate conviction that the time is out of joint, Jimmy Porter is the completest young pup in our literature since Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
(4) We're trendy as hell right now Del Seymour A $3.5m museum telling the area’s ribald history of vice, jazz and defiance opened on Thursday on the site of a former Sizzler steak house.
(5) What the collected metadata let us discover Let’s jump straight to a more ribald example.
(6) In her letter to Schumer , Sarah Clements referenced media speculation that Houser may have specifically targeted the ribald comedy , due to a hatred of women.
(7) Following his most recent tweet on the benefits cap that comes into action on Monday , he may be inclined to revisit the ribald advice.
(8) Now form a band" – (that was Sideburns, another punk zine from 1977), its example spawned a slew of followers – including Jamming!, Burnt Offering and Chainsaw (which featured ribald cartoons from a young Andrew Marr) – and established a culture of DIY underground rock criticism that thrives to this day, both in print and online.