Примери за badinage

• 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. 

• This is the time for business questions, not badinage.

• I think that we have had enough badinage.

• I hope that we do not hear a lot of political badinage.

• There has been a little badinage, but generally it has been fairly non-partisan.

• I am very happy to indulge in party badinage this morning.

• We have listened to speeches some of which have been full of badinage and some full of bad economics, and some a combination of both.

• We have had a bit of badinage this evening about whether interest rates should have risen before the election.

• The diversion that has occurred with the badinage between the two leading speakers has not helped the debate much.

• We had a little badinage earlier in our discussions on the subject of conversions.

• The first is that for all the badinage, they are vital.

• I hope that we can now get away from this party-political badinage and back to a more sensible debate about what is going on in our society.

• I do not want to become involved in any party political badinage about the way in which the figures for the long-term unemployed are arrived at.

• The country hates this kind of badinage.

• Time does not permit me to get into that sort of political badinage.

• It was started as a periodical featuring student politics, badinage and literary efforts.