Example sentences for: badinage

How can you use “badinage” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We don't expect badinage from the Pillsbury Doughboy or banter from Betty Crocker.

  • When you issue the next invitation, tell him you'd like it if he would take a timeout from the badinage when he needs to leave the table.

  • The screenwriter, Curtis, began his career with the hilariously acrid BBC sitcom Black Adder before writing The Tall Guy (1989) and Four Weddings and a Funeral --a movie that irked me, possibly because Grant passed up the alluringly neurotic Kristin Scott Thomas for the vapidly bovine Andie MacDowell, possibly because its dizzy romantic badinage was interrupted for easy pathos involving a fatal heart attack and other real-world calamities.

  • In a flash McCain is off, wisecracking, talking seriously about his campaign and his life, engaging in badinage with aides and teasing his good-natured spouse, who sits a couple of seats away, trying to talk to their daughter back home in Arizona about her lacrosse game on a cell phone.

  • A buddy specialist would have punched up the Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi badinage, and a black dialogue specialist would have given the comic-relief character, Jar Jar Binks, a man-size dinosaur with pop eyes and a vaguely West Indian patois, something fresher than "Ex-squeeze me!"


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