Derision vs Banter - What's the difference?
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Act of treating with disdain.
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Good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.
To engage in banter or playful conversation.
To play or do something amusing.
To tease (someone) mildly.
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* Charlotte Brontë
To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).
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To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.
* Daniel De Foe
(transitive, US, Southern and Western, colloquial) To challenge to a match.
Derision is a related term of banter.
As nouns the difference between derision and banter
is that derision is derision while banter is good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.As a verb banter is
to engage in banter or playful conversation.derision
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- There was just a touch of derision in the Don's voice and Hagen flushed.
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English
Noun
(-)- It seemed like I'd have to listen to her playful banter for hours.
Verb
(en verb)- Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day.
- Mr. Sweeting was bantered about his stature—he was a little man, a mere boy in height and breadth compared with the athletic Malone
- If they banter' your regularity, order, and love of study, ' banter in return their neglect of them.
- We diverted ourselves with bantering several poor scholars with hopes of being at least his lordship's chaplain.