badinage

If this was to be badinage, I would sustain my end.

Doc, though, has no time for that kind of badinage.

I had never yet seen the youngster who could stand his badinage.

But when she did not reply, he returned to his badinage.

Sometimes there's no harm in a little badinage among colleagues.

The moment passed, and Virginia went back to her customary badinage.

There was badinage between them, a sly challenge, and one rose to his feet.

The soldiers even seemed to enjoy their badinage with the women, and the teasing.

Early hours would seem to lend a certain acidity to their badinage.

During their badinage, the German veteran had never taken his gaze off the enemy.

Stan didn't seem to mind this badinage, if that's what it was.

Where circumstances demand male badinage, he can keep his end up ("What's the most times you've done it in one night?"

There is little true wit in all of the elegantly spoken badinage.

Jonathan ignored the badinage, sipped more beer and went on.

They doubled as witnesses for one another, and engaged in occasional badinage.

Such badinage has become an accepted form of contemporary humor, almost obligatory.

The badinage soon turns serious, and issues that were never spoken of when Mark was alive are finally aired.

"Thank you, Admiral," she replied, determined to keep up the badinage.

The Count's customary cloak of badinage had fallen away completely.

Its hard, nasty edge cut through the drunken badinage.

It was started as a periodical featuring student politics, badinage and literary efforts.

The comedy-routine badinage from the bustling wait staff is almost nonstop.

Some of them were exchanging profane and pleasant badinage with the prisoner.

This badinage the poor wretch took with stoical good grace.

As the students drift in, I engage in light badinage with the sound technician.