88 examples of badinage in sentences

While thus oblivious of the past, and reckless of the future, we were enjoying the present moment in this badinage, and I was extolling the odour of the rose, as beyond every other grateful to the olfactory nerves of man, a lively, flippant little personage came up, and accosted the Brahmin with the familiarity of an acquaintance.

She saw again the softly lighted room with its open windows through which the flowers peeped, and heard his gay badinage and his low, sweet laugh.

Baccalaureate, badinage, bagatelle, baleful, ballast, banality, baneful, beatitude, bellicose, belligerent, benefaction, beneficent, benison, betide, bibulous, bigotry, bizarre, bombastic, burlesque.

They drank his health, forced him into the place of honour by the side of Honeybrook, veteran of the club, and ate their meal to the accompaniment of ceaseless bursts of laughter, chaff, the popping of corks, mock speeches, badinage of every sort.

He does so dearly love badinage.

" This was written in answer to some thoughtless rattle that the captain had volunteered to put in his last letter, as coming from Maud, who had sensitively shrunk from sending a message when asked; and it was read by father, mother, and Beulah, as the badinage of a brother to a sister, without awaking a second thought in either.

" We broke in upon the Admiral in his office near the shipyards, and he greeted me with cheerful badinage.

That is my armour; warriors ever wear A cuirass of strong steel before their breasts; A woman carries but a little shield Of scorn and badinage, to break the force On her weak woman-heart, of javelins hurled.

" While they were partaking of refreshments, she and her father were perpetually exchanging badinage, which, childish as it was, served to enliven the repast.

He remembered the vivid flush that passed over Rosa's face while her playful sister teased her with that tuneful badinage.

He enjoyed the implication of Tump Pack's stupidity, in their badinage, but she would not stay.

Ridicule N. ridicule, derision; sardonic smile, sardonic grin; irrision^; scoffing &c (disrespect) 929; mockery, quiz^, banter, irony, persiflage, raillery, chaff, badinage; quizzing &c v.; asteism^. squib, satire, skit, quip, quib^, grin. parody, burlesque, travesty, travestie^; farce &c (drama) 599; caricature.

" The commander-in-chief who could find time at such a moment to indulge in badinage, must have possessed excellent nerve; and this composure, mingled with a certain buoyant hopefulness, as of one sure of the event, remained with Lee throughout the whole great wrestle with General Hooker.

Once in particular, at his own table, after a good deal of badinage and cross-questioning about his being the author of the Reply to Judge Eyre's Charge, on Mr. Godwin's acknowledging that he was, Mr. Tooke said, "Come here then,"and when his guest went round to his chair, he took his hand, and pressed it to his lips, saying"I can do no less for the hand that saved my life!"

In spite of his formalism, Sybil discerns that her lover is full of good sense and feeling; and he makes the same discovery with regard to the young lady's badinage.

The moment he stopped to listen, I assumed a tone of earnest badinage.

Here, gentle reader, you have the Captain's fun and badinage on all the wonderful wonders of Hubbabubvidelicet this wonderful town.

The game should no longer depend for its sparkle on impromptu badinage between the umpire and the wicket-keeper.

Paetus seems to answer him with the same good-humoured badinage.

"What was that I heard?" asked Mrs. Coombes playfully, as she entered, and there was badinage about kissing.

As the day wore on his state of mind passed from wonder to elation, albeit the circumstances of his dismissal from the Long Dragon were still disagreeable to recall, and a garbled account of the matter that had reached his colleagues led to some badinage.

Dinner was a miserable failure in that family, which usually had much to compare, much to impart, much badinage and laughter to distribute.

He gave a short mirthless laugh, and I understood that he was trying his hand at a little light social badinage.

His chief merit in literature, apart from his often delicate epigrams, his élégant badinage and his graceful if at times facile verse, lies in the power he possesses, in common with Garcilaso and Spenser, of treating the allegorical pastoral without entirely losing the charm of naïve simplicity and genuine feeling.

" Much more of this childlike badinage followed, and by and by they came around again to the same last statement.

88 examples of  badinage  in sentences