badinage

Example Sentences

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She will sashay through some neon-lit nightclub and accept with a knowing smile a Stoli on the rocks and some badinage from the barman, before putting the smackdown on some brutish thug.

From The Guardian

He also has a playful quasi-Brit accent to emphasise how louche and racy he is supposed to be, exchanging waspish badinage with everyone at court.

From The Guardian

The bidding and the badinage was “his own form of daytime cabaret,” said Angus Wilkie, an antiques dealer.

From New York Times

Kind, a fellow Jersey boy, who broke hearts voicing doomed imaginary friend Bing Bong in Inside Out, will handle the singing and the badinage.

From The Guardian

Whether she helps or hinders her argument by citing the dream-centric badinage of the Rarámuri tribe of northwestern Mexico is debatable.

From The New Yorker