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Recent Examples of badinage In The Kitchen, Wesker tracked the decorum from friendly badinage to hostile vernacular that co-workers sustain just to get through the day. Armond White, National Review, 30 Oct. 2024 While Hawley hasn’t left behind any of his signature philosophical dialogue or memorable badinage, Season 5 is also the most reliant on the camera to make its points. Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024 The question of who was manipulating whom had been a meta thing in our conversations from the beginning, with jokey badinage about the power of interviewers and the vulnerability of their subjects. Laura Kipnis, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2023 The music is in the badinage. Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Dec. 2020 But also present are Heyer’s wry humor and deftness in witty badinage. Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2022 The film, directed with an alluring blend of badinage and upper-crust sensuality by Emma Holly Jones, is based on a novel by Suzanne Allain (who wrote the screenplay), which was published in 2020 and designed to be a playful riff on Jane Austen. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 July 2022 The banality of Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s adapted script suggests satire, yet the film is fairly humorless, despite the musicians’ profane badinage. Armond White, National Review, 1 Jan. 2021 The result is a system that favors cable-ready wisecracks and viral badinage over substantive policy discussions. Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 July 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for badinage
Noun
  • There are countless ways to flirt, from playful banter at run club to stealing someone’s hat on the playground.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 18 Apr. 2025
  • An outgoing, flirty foil to Ellie’s brusque, steely demeanor, Dina’s playful banter with her pal is laced with the charge of friendly conversation that could tip into romantic intimacy on a dime.
    Abby Monteil, Them., 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • With time, their caustic raillery transforms into sincere attachment.
    Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 13 May 2021
  • French’s evocation of place, a rural way of life and overall creepiness are superb, as is the dialogue, a festival of Irish raillery and repartee.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
Noun
  • Trump sued Maher in 2013 for $5 million after the comedian made a crass joke about his mother and an orangutan.
    Steff Danielle Thomas, The Hill, 19 Apr. 2025
  • While Instagram and TikTok chase global virality, Fizz leans hard into hyper relevance: the inside joke, the anonymous confession, the econ final everyone just bombed.
    Ian Shepherd, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • For all his entertaining repartee, Hedges is keenly aware of when to lock in.
    Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Ally and Jay are both sarcastic, too — their best lines are muttered under their breaths — and their repartee becomes more interesting than the bloody theatrics.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • That sort of showboating elicits laughs from TV audiences, partly because today's younger shoppers are spending less on pricey goods and more on luxury experiences.
    Marco della Cava, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Sharing good laughs goes a long way to strengthening connections and relationships.
    Liz Guthridge, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • None of this will keep Republicans and conservatives from attacking the reconciliation bill with smoke, mirrors and persiflage.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2022
  • As Nixon’s political strategist, Kevin Phillips, told the New York Times in 1970: All the talk about Republicans making inroads into the Negro vote is persiflage.
    Jane Coaston, Vox, 12 Oct. 2018
Noun
  • The United States cannot guarantee success in sensitive international negotiations in advance, least of all when a court imposes an absurdly compressed, mandatory deadline that vastly complicates the give-and-take of foreign-relations negotiations.
    Laura Romero, ABC News, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Far from rejecting transactional diplomacy, regional leaders crave genuine give-and-take relationships in which their priorities receive consideration.
    MATIAS SPEKTOR, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Their early short films were made on shoestring budgets, relying on humor and inventive storytelling.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
  • For her performance, Clarkson sported a Buffalo Bills jacket — a nod to that day’s guest, Hailee Steinfeld, who is engaged to quarterback Josh Allen — and kept her vocal arrangement free of any of her signature high notes or riffs, letting the humor of Crow’s lyrics speak for itself.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 9 Apr. 2025

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“Badinage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/badinage. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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