pleasantry

exchanged pleasantries before getting down to business.

after an exchange of pleasantries, I proceeded to outline a plan.

Swapping pleasantries, two cardinals prepare to enter the Synod Hall for a consistory, an assembly of cardinals that advises the pope.

For many years Jess had been employed about the cemetery as a man-of-all-work and it was his favourite pleasantry that he knew 'every soul in the place.

exchanging pleasantries with colleagues

a brief pleasantry before the meeting

pleasant pleasantries at the party

a formal pleasantry in the email

offering pleasantries to new neighbors

a pleasantry to break the ice

exchanging pleasantries with strangers

a pleasantry to start a conversation