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badinage

[ UK /bˈædɪnɪd‍ʒ/ ]
NOUN
  1. frivolous banter

How To Use badinage In A Sentence

  • Similarly, with "badinage" - the phonetic meaning comes out as "bad in age" - memory, sex, teeth. Archive 2008-04-01
  • Trollope, especially at school, must have put up with much badinage.
  • There is no cheery speech, no overlapping dialogue, no badinage, no heartiness - real or false - almost no voice raised in anger or twisted in sarcasm.
  • In describing a scene in which sexist badinage is exchanged at an account meeting, McLean correctly points out that “the series is critical of this limited view and is not afraid to spell [its criticism] out.” Mad About Mad Men
  • Perched on a stool by the door, clad in tasteless leisure-wear… [he] would trade coarse badinage with his regulars.
  • No doubt they are seeking a refreshing take on contemporary life - a brief respite from the melee of ill informed badinage that can wear one so.
  • Between the two of them, they keep up a relentless barrage of badinage.
  • But at such moments he recognized in himself, behind the badinage, a cold touch of unhappiness, of deprivation. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • Amid jokes and badinage, the rehearsal started with Jimi Hendirx's Purple Haze and carried on with the entire Le Quattro Stagioni almost without interruption.
  • And there's only so much waspish, scintillating badinage with Stereophonics one can take.
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