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badinage

noun as in joking around

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Example Sentences

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!"

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On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to badinage, such as: banter, fool, persiflage, raillery, repartee, and ribbing.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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