badinage

Going back, Liszt indulged in a little graceful badinage apropos of the concerto.

He felt the pathos of her black gown; but she had rallied from the first shock of her sorrow, and met him in his key of badinage.

He challenged me, in badinage, as though he had a right to say who should visit Wardour.

I could not be annoyed at this mingling of praise and badinage, especially when she relieved me from all sense of intrusion.

What badinage to toss into the face of a man who had braved death upon a hundred battle-fields and all for "loyalty!"