KEY: Banter.
SYN: Badinage, chaff, mockery, derision, ridicule, irony, jeering, raillery.
ANT: Discussion, discourse, argument.
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KEY: Barbarous.
SYN: Rude, strange, uncivilized, brutal, cruel, ferocious, inhuman, merciless, outlandish, savage, uncouth, atrocious, flagitious, unfettered, nefarious, gross.
ANT: Polite, civilized, refined, humane, urbane.
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KEY: Barely, [See HARDLY].
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