banteringly

comparative more banteringly · superlative most banteringly

1. In a bantering manner.

   'Now I shall have to dine by myself,' he continued, no longer banteringly.

   1954, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenin, translated into English by Rosemary Edmonds

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   'What? Have you found your treasure-trove, Ursula?' he asked banteringly, but looking with envious interest at the instinctive maternity of her sheltering arms.

   1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 269