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单词 rejoinder
释义
rejoinderre‧join‧der /rɪˈdʒɔɪndə $ -ər/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINrejoinder
Origin:
1400-1500 Old French rejoindre; REJOIN2
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Sharpton has a funny rejoinder for every occasion.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Eliot concurred; but he still felt that sometimes it was necessary to write a fairly sharp rejoinder.
  • Freedom of choice is a feeble rejoinder when the issue is global suicide.
  • It would be unfair to leave the discussion of the later Wordsworth without a rejoinder to what is usually said.
  • Speech implies other speech, either preceding it, or as an anticipated rejoinder.
  • Vic grunts, the distillation of an equally familiar rejoinder.
  • When I called him to object, the reporter said that his editors intended to invite me to write a rejoinder.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
something you say when someone asks you a question or speaks to you: · I asked if he wanted to come, but I didn’t get an answer.· If you’re asking me for money, the answer’s no!
an answer – used especially in written English to report what someone said: · She asked how he felt, and received the reply, ‘Awful!’· ‘Finished now?’ ‘No,' came the reply.
an answer that clearly shows your reaction to a question, suggestion etc: · Wagner’s responses showed that he had thought carefully about the issues.· ‘Sure. Why not?’ was his response to most of Billie’s suggestions.
written an angry answer given when someone has annoyed you or criticized you: · Isabelle began an angry retort and then stopped herself.
a quick answer that is clever, funny, or rude: · He walked out before I could think of a snappy comeback.
formal a quick and clever answer: · Anna produced the perfect riposte.
formal a quick answer, especially a clever or rude one: · If he confronts them, he’ll run the risk of a sharp rejoinder.
formal a reply, especially a rude one:  He tried to think of a snappy rejoinder.
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