They spent the entire afternoon wallowing in gossip and persiflage. From LearnThat.org.
One hopes there will always be a "persiflage" like that of. From Wordnik.com. [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference
He would never subject himself to such persiflage. From Wordnik.com. [The Crab Grille Café.] Reference
June 21st, 2006 at 7:48 pm persiflage & piffle #120. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Thanks] Reference
March 15th, 2006 at 3:57 am persiflage & piffle says. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Hang On, It Might Be a Bumpy Ride] Reference
It's not the dishwasher detergent, per se, persiflage. From Wordnik.com. [At What Point Do People Revolt? - Erick’s blog - RedState] Reference
It was made for airs and banter and persiflage and coquetry. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
Do not be fooled by the cunning historical persiflage above!. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
Corporation, which I may cite as a modele de vrai persiflage. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
She looked at him through his persiflage wistfully, searchingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
"Come on," said Berwick, paying no attention to Jim's persiflage. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
He met her look, and saw the fierce demand through the softness and persiflage. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
Your blog is better than a Word-A-Day calendar. persiflage solipsistic badinage. From Wordnik.com. [oh, such zesty persiflage] Reference
If a young wife was modest or shy, she was the object of unflattering persiflage. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
And now coming at us with the airy persiflage, the first regular breath he's drawed. From Wordnik.com. [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference
But whereas the Italian is in dead earnest, the Latin tinkers with playful persiflage. From Wordnik.com. [An Exchange on Machiavelli] Reference
We shook hands, and the fellows crowded round with all sorts of advice and persiflage. From Wordnik.com. [THE HANDSOME CABIN BOY] Reference
But she sensed that, behind this gentle barrage of persiflage, he was worried and frightened. From Wordnik.com. [The Silicon Mage]
The attitude and persiflage under such depressing conditions did not fail to impress our guards. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
Genial persiflage of this sort was his particular forte whether my imitation of it is good or bad. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference
Laertes; and here again, let it be observed, religious tendencies are made the subject of persiflage. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference
French persiflage, founded on happy content, not the blank indifference of the Englishman's disregard. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873] Reference
"Meanwhile, I'll try to amuse you all with my usual turgid, self-involved, slightly-snooty persiflage ...". From Wordnik.com. [74 mph] Reference
Fabulous diction, excellent vocabulary, I'm inspired to add "propitious" and "persiflage" into my daily rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [Easter Away!] Reference
Sure, there'd be trenchant witticisms, fleeting persiflage of pique, effervescent bon mots spilling down the page. From Wordnik.com. [Hippo Gnu Deer!] Reference
It was a humdinger, tellya what, and you had to be fast on your feet to catch this runaway train of witty persiflage. From Wordnik.com. [1/3/03 Day XIII of the] Reference
The masterly persiflage, too, filled me with admiration and I declared that the lecture ranked with the best ever heard in. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference
BYRD: That's a picture of President Eisenhower having a little fun and badinage and persiflage with the late Speaker Rayburn. From Wordnik.com. [The Senate: 1789-1989] Reference
These are the sort of longings lying semidormant in the heart of a man busy in the stratagems and persiflage of the art market. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham: The New York Review Of Books] Reference
Spinsterish persiflage is one thing, but this seems to transgress the boundaries of literary criticism and of simple good taste. From Wordnik.com. [Pornography] Reference
Tho prattle and persiflage have their place in conversation, talkers of the highest order tire of continually encouraging chit-chat. From Wordnik.com. [Conversation What to Say and How to Say it] Reference
Such professional persiflage helped preserved our sanity. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News] Reference
She was not in a mood for airy persiflage, as he soon discovered. From Wordnik.com. [The Hollow of Her Hand] Reference
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