badinage
light, playful, and witty banter
Badinage in a sentence
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Their easy badinage across the counter made the dull errand feel almost festive.
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The professor's lectures were notoriously blank; students often left more puzzled than when they had arrived, unable to follow his tangled chains of reasoning.
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marked by riotous, unrestrained revelry and drunken festivity
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lacking originality and so dull or commonplace
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