banteringly

From bantering + -ly.

banteringly (comparative more banteringly, superlative most banteringly)

1. 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.