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English
Etymology
From bantering + -ly.
Adverb
banteringly (comparative more banteringly, superlative most banteringly)
- In a bantering manner.
1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 269:'What? Have you found your treasure-trove, Ursula?' he asked banteringly, but looking with envious interest at the instinctive maternity of her sheltering arms.
- 1954, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenin, translated into English by Rosemary Edmonds:
- 'Now I shall have to dine by myself,' he continued, no longer banteringly.