Sentence examples for clever badinage from inspiring English sources
To save he cousin's happiness, Kate pretends to Heath that she was merely flirting amid clever badinage on either side.
Armed with an expatriate's sociological curiosity and a Rolodex full of A-list names, she sets out to navigate the "complex maze" of unwritten rules and unspoken assumptions that inform many of the French capital's fabled enticements: food and wine, lingerie and fashion, clever badinage and suave gallantry.
The movie itself evolves in reverse, starting life as a moderately clever grab bag of high-concept noodling and half-witty badinage before descending into the primordial ooze of explosions and elaborate lower-intestinal gags.
Dinosaurs are running everywhere, but Ivan Reitman's spoof, A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times, "evolves in reverse, starting life as a moderately clever grab bag of high-concept noodling and half-witty badinage before sinking into the primordial ooze of explosions and lower-intestinal gags".
But the badinage goes nowhere.
Lanegan doesn't do badinage.
I didn't mind the friendly badinage.
Forget the espionage, listen to the badinage.
(Even her name is the subject of some testy badinage).
It is either unfunny badinage or – more likely – leery aggression.
