A quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
1 Yet that was their high point, a brief riposte amid incessant pressure.
2 The prime minister's obvious riposte would be to call a second election.
3 His comments were seen as a riposte to the current US administration.
4 In a sense, Robertson says, this novel is a riposte to that.
5 I'd be ever so grateful? A few rough chuckles acknowledged Hudson's riposte .
6 The arrest of Guzman offers a strong riposte to the president's critics.
7 I grinned easily and started to riposte , but the pay phone rang.
8 It was the perfect riposte to the Stoke supporters who booed him.
9 He pressed with a riposte , but Levictus parried and leapt at him.
10 Before he could riposte the Sultan side-kicked him in the flat belly.
11 Came Ross's riposte two years later, via devastating Wolcott Gibbs Profile of Luce.
12 Burlingame was stung by the laughter in the court and ventured a riposte .
13 All too often an aggressive secularism has pushed religion into a violent riposte .
14 Or maybe Pinckney was working on his idea of clever riposte .
15 Owein thrust again, too quickly, opening his body for a riposte .
16 Don't wait for a riposte from the Cyrano de Bergerac of hurling though.
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