badinage

Example Sentences

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His badinage is hardly Wildean, but his put-downs, honed to the sharpness of stilettos, are many people’s idea of fun.

From Salon • May 8, 2024

Usually that high gloss means Hare is up to some undermining; in plays like “Plenty,” “The Judas Kiss” and “Skylight,” good badinage almost always means bad faith.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2022

But also present are Heyer’s wry humor and deftness in witty badinage.

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2022

And Simon Longnight, who plays both Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson, can’t compete with the memory of Daveed Diggs, but he excels in rapping humorous ripostes and clever badinage.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2021

So disordered were my nerves from their romping badinage that I did not mark this question was addressed to me.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson