badinage

• I felt that I was no match for my friend at badinage, and gave it up But what do you think he could do!" —  The Big Otter
• Jeanette came in for a share of their badinage, as Lucien now remembered that he had tied her head within a foot of the tree, and of course she would be all this time without eating a morsel. —  The Boy Hunters
• Perhaps then they might not see so much to bray at This badinage was kept up for some little time, so that the prowlers in the cornfield might not suspect that their presence were known to the campers All of the party were wondering how the Mystery Man knew that they were being watched, for none of the Overlanders had heard the slightest sound in the direction of the cornfield, and their ears, after all their campaigning, were always on the alert. —  Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers
• She would purposely irritate him by continuing her tone of badinage, and then Mr Palliser would become fretful, and would look as though the cares of the world were too many for him. —  Can You Forgive Her?
• She had such an air of graceful badinage, as she asked the question, that it did not seem to him that he had a right to be angry, and yet he did feel so. —  The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

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