badinage

Example Sentences

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Also set to be big: silent spas, where you haven’t even got the friendly badinage of your manicurist to distract you from your lack of reception.

From The Guardian

You’ll find beatings, shootouts, car crashes, awkward analogies and a measure of buddy badinage in “Bright,” but true enchantment is in short supply.

From New York Times

Leave it to Oscar Wilde to telescope the Holy Bible into one divine bit of badinage.

From New York Times

Together, though, they never generate heat, or convince us that real hungers underlie their chilly badinage.

From Los Angeles Times

According to media reports, LA is engaged in backroom badinage with the IOC to squeeze out a few concessions, including financial aid to run its organizing committee for an additional four years.

From The Guardian