13 Verbs to Use for the Word badinage

He was not a man of any statesmanlike ability; but Lacretelle ascribes to him "les graces d'un esprit aimable et frivole qui avait le don d'amuser un vieillard toujours porté à un elegant badinage" (ii. 53); and in a subsequent letter speaks of him as a man of very lively powers of conversation.]

"When I saw you steaming towards the castle so swiftly," she said, dropping badinage, "the hope entered my head that you had heard of my arrival.

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

I watch him keep a perturbed and restless Major from the line waiting while he finishes his light-hearted badinage with a subordinate.

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.

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

It is one thing to introduce the fulsome badinage of compliment with which French tragedy abounds, and another to exhibit the "very ecstacy of love: Whose violent property foredoes itself, And leads the will to desperate undertakings, As oft as any passion under heaven, That does afflict our natures.

He does so dearly love badinage.

" Eve looked up gratefully, for she saw that profound respect for her character dictated the remark; but rising, she observed "This is making a little badinage about our honest, lion-hearted, old captain, a very serious affair.

He had proposed badinage at a suitable distance.

They took our elegant badinage for our sober and settled opinions, and laughed in the most accommodating manner when we delivered our real and most matured sentiments.

They were probably ignorant of art and music, did not understand badinage, and, in fact, could talk of nothing amusing.

I want no badinage" "Because, thenbecause I never could forget Celianever love any one else.

13 Verbs to Use for the Word  badinage