pleasantries in the PONS Dictionary

pleasantries Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

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Her guiltless brand of selfish hedonism burns through the sluggish pleasantries of staff-room life like caustic soda in a blocked drain.
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Brash, aggressive, charmless and frequently menacing, he evinced little to none of the pleasantries such occasions usually engender.
www.independent.co.uk
Most people can only talk pleasantries with the justices, who all develop a froideur an air of aloofness.
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There's very little messing around: no joking, chitchat or pleasantries.
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