Their splenetic badinage is one of the brightest threads in this book. From LearnThat.org. [David Profumo, Source: A Good Life; The Daily Telegraph (London, UK); Oct 18, 1997.]
I stipulate that this sounded idiotic, but when you are facing a large and menacing Viking, badinage is the first casualty. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Whales Is Missing] Reference
The badinage is the young man's defect in art; the brag is his defect in nature. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 30, 1892] Reference
But instead of joining what Charmian termed the badinage, the psychoanalysts remained aloof. From Wordnik.com. [Fleur De Leigh’s Life of Crime] Reference
The word is "badinage" and, as defined on AWAD, means "Light, playful remarks; banter.". From Wordnik.com. [Naughty and Nice] Reference
This kind of badinage was new to the farmer, and it amused him immensely. From Wordnik.com. [He Fell in Love with His Wife] Reference
Lafontaine couched in the most merciless badinage. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
From light badinage, we got talking of literature. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 1] Reference
It passes from badinage into personalities and recriminations. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
No man ever sat on a committee with him who had time for badinage. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
But in her case it is more than just the usual embarrassing badinage. From Wordnik.com. [Did She Take The Hill?] Reference
Even the Gods were not spared by the Aristophanic wit and badinage; in. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
The boy's badinage, Nell's half-shy delight, filled Drake with joy; even. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
He had a good deal of wit, but little humor, and did not relish badinage. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
After some further badinage, Mrs. Thornton drew a letter from her pocket. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
Good natured badinage plays like wild-fire, up and down and across the street. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country] Reference
But the storekeeper is never taken by surprize at the badinage of his patrons. From Wordnik.com. [Sergeant York And His People] Reference
As a specimen of the badinage so much in vogue, I quote from a letter written by. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
Grace laughingly interrupted the badinage by directing Washington to begin packing. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers] Reference
He challenged me, in badinage, as though he had a right to say who should visit Wardour. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
Perhaps Miss Blythe discerned a touch of badinage in his tone, and construed it as a mockery. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
"How was it they were so little in tune," she wondered, "wasting time with this tactless badinage?". From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
He is so single-minded that he cannot understand badinage, but takes it all as if meant in earnest, -- a. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
"Perfectly," says the detective, dropping his tone of badinage and becoming alert and business like at once. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
If this is intended to be a piece of pleasant badinage, far be it from us to arrest a single smile it may awaken. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
Between these two there was an almost constant warfare of humorous badinage in connection with their several weaknesses. From Wordnik.com. [Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie] Reference
I could not be annoyed at this mingling of praise and badinage, especially when she relieved me from all sense of intrusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
Once more a golden moment slipped away with elfish elusiveness, and Colette, secure in her supremacy, resumed her tantalizing badinage. From Wordnik.com. [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference
Merry were his laugh and jest and wit and playful badinage, for the early Methodist preachers were no stern ascetics or grim anchorites. From Wordnik.com. [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference
When the fourth lad joined the bunch, there was a lot of good-natured badinage indulged in all around, after the manner of boys in general. From Wordnik.com. [Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails] Reference
This badinage was kept up for some little time, so that the prowlers in the cornfield might not suspect that their presence were known to the campers. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers] Reference
The bridge between them, Armstrong submits, is not the snarky badinage or righteous browbeating that has so defined faith-versus-reason debates of late, but practice. From Wordnik.com. [Out, Out, Damned Atheists] Reference
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