persiflage

The comment might seem, on the surface, to be sort of insignificant persiflage.

Some Sorters enjoyed persiflage, and/or getting the better of the singer.

When he calls on cousin Anne, he gets more of her persiflage.

And so it goes, with Washington anecdotes, opinions and persiflage.

Either Massey hadn't seen through all the persiflage, or he was playing back the party line exceptionally well.

Andrée's voice had changed to a lower key, that air of persiflage was gone.

From that moment the conversation was mere persiflage.

Markham returned angrily; "drop the persiflage and get down to business.

The persiflage finished, we all took turns looking at screwworm larvae under a microscope.

But she sensed that, behind this gentle barrage of persiflage, he was worried and frightened.

He was in no mood for persiflage.

And any other question is utter persiflage.

It was no time for airy persiflage.

Take drag queens, those pillars of persiflage.

He is evenhanded and businesslike, and he has small use for persiflage.

And this talk wasn't mere persiflage.

That we have been so intelligent about identifying unintelligible persiflage gives hope that we may learn not just to talk but to say something.

There was that dreadful afternoon when she had heard Nan and Noel exchanging airy persiflage over the phone.

If airy persiflage went down well at street demonstrations, Noël Coward would have had a whole other career.

You're mentally incapable of recognizing the line of demarcation between legitimate persiflage and objectionable familiarity.

"Either pay up or get out'" Mrs. McGurk wanted no persiflage.

Such remote attachment to a power tool may seem odd, but it's a fitting expression of the brothers' spirit: part camouflage, part persiflage.

In short, the truck fairly rocked with persiflage and melody, until night abruptly fell and the black-out curtains were attached.

He was not an Italian, still less a Frenchman, in whose blood there runs the very spirit of persiflage and of gracious repartee.

"Inconsequential nonsense, beloved; evanescent persiflage."