Usually means: Polite expressions used in conversation.
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  1. pleasantries: Merriam-Webster
  2. pleasantries: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pleasantries: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pleasantries: Vocabulary.com
  5. Pleasantries, pleasantries: Wordnik
  6. pleasantries: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. pleasantries: Wiktionary
  8. Pleasantries, pleasantries: Dictionary.com
  9. pleasantries: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Pleasantries: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Pleasantries: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. pleasantries: FreeDictionary.org
  13. pleasantries: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pleasantries)

▸ noun:  A short polite conversation before a serious conversation.
▸ noun:  For bad language as a euphemism.

Similar:
foretalk, intro, presequence, preface, pre-interview, preliminary, proem, pourparler, pretalk, prenegotiation, more...

Opposite:
unpleasantries

Phrases:
meaningless pleasantries, exchange pleasantries, more...

Adjectives:
few, usual, such, little, social, more, initial, brief, coarse, polite, further



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Similar:
foretalk, intro, presequence, preface, pre-interview, preliminary, proem, pourparler, pretalk, prenegotiation, more...

Opposite:
unpleasantries

Phrases:
meaningless pleasantries, exchange pleasantries, more...

Adjectives:
few, usual, such, little, social, more, initial, brief, coarse, polite, further



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