She refused to recognize anything but meaningless badinage in his words.
"A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories"
William D. Howells
Something vigilant lay crouched panther-like behind the laughter of his surface badinage.
"Brand Blotters"
William MacLeod Raine
And she had ignored it, taking it as badinage, and he had been too weak to brand it truth.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson