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rejoinder
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synonyms: riposte ???
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Definition:a witty reply; a retort
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"Narborough wasn't perfect," cried the old lady.
"If he had been, you would not have loved him, my dear lady," was the rejoinder.
Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Feeling probably that the conversation was taking a tone too serious for a drawing-room, Vronsky made no rejoinder, but by way of trying to change the conversation, he smiled brightly, and turned to the ladies.
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“Madam, I should like some tea,” was the sole rejoinder she got.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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"One devil, dat Spitz," remarked Perrault. "Some dam day heem keel dat Buck."
"Dat Buck two devils," was Francois's rejoinder.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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“And never saw I a better case of the right hand not knowin’ what the left is up to,” came the quick rejoinder.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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I don’t speak of Anatole, your youngest. I don’t like him,” she added in a tone admitting of no rejoinder and raising her eyebrows.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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