(1) His co-presenters, mainly famous retired players, have often been dissed for the meat-and-potatoes blandness of their analysis, not to mention a familiar golf-clubby badinage.
(2) In film, Marvel's franchises rely as much on their humour and badinage as they do their action.
(3) It was so bad you could practically hear the champagne corks popping at Amazon HQ.” Andrew Billen in the Times was not convinced by the rapport between Evans and LeBlanc: “Chemistry was what we were looking for here, but their badinage was no more than passable offcuts from an unmade transatlantic buddy movie.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Top Gear’s The Stig: the Guardian’s hard-hitting interview New Top Gear review: lots of polish but it's still a secondhand car show Read more His two-star review concluded: “Would we buy a used car show from this man?
(4) Women are at least as intelligent as men, and they have as vivid and ready a perception of the absurd; but they have not developed the arts of fooling, clowning, badinage, repartee, burlesque and innuendo into a semi-continuous performance as so many men have.
Persiflage
Definition:
(n.) Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery.