(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.
Raillery
Definition:
(n.) Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment.
Example Sentences:
(1) This tremendous passage is of course a great deal more than the comedian's parting: "Bless you, you've been a wonderful audience, look after each other, thank you, good night," though it has some of the same effect, a moment of still truth in the midst of the carnival of wit and raillery.
(2) But receiving a lot of "only half good-natured raillery about being from the bush", allied to a period of depression, contributed to his leaving university in 1960 without completing his degree, to hitchhike round Australia.