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Vinony

small talk

noun

  1. light talk or conversation about unimportant or uncontroversial matters
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Wiktionary

noun

  1. Idle conversation, typically regarding innocuous or unimportant subjects, usually engaged in at social gatherings out of politeness.

    “[T]o the credit of the lady it may be added, that […] without any of the arts of flattery or the gaieties of small talk, he began to be agreeable to her.”

    “If he had a fault as a conversationalist, it was a certain tendency to monotony, a certain lack of sparkle and variety in his small-talk.”