Words similar to banter

Example sentences for: banter

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In current American usage, the term resembles what we call kidding: that is, making fun of someone or some thing in a frivolous manner, such as in the obligatory banter at roasts of famous people.
Here their roles have been witlessly muddled, and MacPherson's idea of banter is to have the pair complete each other's clichés.
Entrapment is an A-list production, but despite Ving Rhames as Connery's enigmatically surly cohort and a bevy of state-of-the-art sensors, cybergizmos, and digital readouts, it can't manage to brush off its B-movie cobwebs or to freshen banter that Rhett would have been too progressive to lay on Scarlett.
The scenes between Cusack and Keener boast the best emasculating banter since Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy , and when Lotte and Maxine begin to communicate erotically through Malkovich's body, the film becomes a transsexual (and transcendental) screwball comedy.
And where a basic occupation centers on livestock, as in Biblical Judea or parts of the American West or the Australian bush, the stockman's jargon is bound to be a main source of metaphors, whether the subject be marital transgression as in the banter at our picnic, or the Lord's providing for His flock as in the Twenty-third Psalm, or national character as in “Waltzing Matilda.”