Preposition: of

• male: Sexual badinage of a heterosexual male by another such cannot be completely equated with like badinage by him of a woman.

Converse of object

• exchange: Wise advisers did not exchange badinage with such redoubtable characters!

Adjective modifier

• heavily-scripted: Their heavily-scripted badinage is the one point where all these various niggles crystallize into perilously clunking, on occasion downright unfunny, material.

• sexual: Sexual badinage of a heterosexual male by another such cannot be completely equated with like badinage by him of a woman.

• like: Sexual badinage of a heterosexual male by another such cannot be completely equated with like badinage by him of a woman.

Preposition: with

• character: Wise advisers did not exchange badinage with such redoubtable characters!