Badinage was exchanged freely with friends standing on the platform.
He does so dearly love badinage.
She waved aside his two-edged badinage.
Still she refused to meet him on his ground of badinage.
This may sound like badinage, but it is uttered in sad earnest.
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This is the time for business questions, notbadinage.
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I think that we have had enoughbadinage.
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I hope that we do not hear a lot of politicalbadinage.
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There has been a littlebadinage, but generally it has been fairly non-partisan.
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I am very happy to indulge in partybadinagethis morning.
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We have listened to speeches some of which have been full ofbadinageand some full of bad economics, and some a combination of both.
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We have had a bit ofbadinagethis evening about whether interest rates should have risen before the election.
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The diversion that has occurred with thebadinagebetween the two leading speakers has not helped the debate much.
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We had a littlebadinageearlier in our discussions on the subject of conversions.
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The first is that for all thebadinage, they are vital.
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I hope that we can now get away from this party-politicalbadinageand back to a more sensible debate about what is going on in our society.
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I do not want to become involved in any party politicalbadinageabout the way in which the figures for the long-term unemployed are arrived at.
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The country hates this kind ofbadinage.
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Time does not permit me to get into that sort of politicalbadinage.
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It was started as a periodical featuring student politics,badinageand literary efforts.
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