Banteringly

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a bantering manner.

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

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a bantering fashion wordnet

Synonyms

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tongue in cheektongue-in-cheek

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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."

Etymology

From bantering + -ly.

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