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How to use persiflage in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word persiflage? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
He was not one to mince matters, nor did he wrap up inconvenient topics in persiflage.
Its all ephemera and persiflage, as we sit mocking in the plumes as political gadflies who tell the truth.
He was clearly out-of-place, the only one in a tie, and as monosyllabic as a teenager during most of the persiflage.
These two words connote at once a corporeal indwelling of the Divine, and an empty, arrogant persiflage.
Everyone is jolly pleased – isn't everyone clever as they engage in diplomatic persiflage on Twitter, Facebook and Weibo?
The visiting foreign admirals wrap the Shogun's first counsellor in persiflage and flags, until he is literally a pinwheel of national promises.
The sport needed to be organized in the first place, because there was chaos and all sorts of persiflage going on.
Perhaps the gentleman is not inclined to persiflage.
After the third strike he returned to the bench to face the inevitable persiflage from his teammates.
The tradition of these troops is preserved as a military persiflage by Cologne's most outstanding carnival society, the Rote Funken.
Polite dinner calls for persiflage rather than in-depth possibly offensive discussion.
Examples from Classical Literature
All this persiflage, in harmony with the polemics of the Gorgias, derides and degrades the rhetors collectively.
There was no joking here, nor that elephantine persiflage which marks rough men when they forgather in the wilderness.
In the presence of guests, such family crises must be tided over with neat persiflage.
Say, they made a great team, them two, when it came to exchangin' persiflage.
Oh, but I prefer that so much to persiflage, said Adrienne, with her tranquillity.
No matter how happy you should be, I should always want you to keep that tone of persiflage.
In contrast with the conductor's dourness, the train butcher's mood was congenially inclined to persiflage.
Florida listened to his persiflage with an air of sad distraction.
I asked in a tone of persiflage, as I took a step towards them.
Then the tone of banter, of irony, almost of persiflage, is discouraging.
She was tall, beautiful, lively, gracious and learned in persiflage.
No one spoke for a moment, and even von Brning had no persiflage ready.
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