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rejoinderre‧join‧der /rɪˈdʒɔɪndə $ -ər/ noun [countable]  rejoinderOrigin: 1400-1500 Old French rejoindre; ➔ REJOIN2 - Sharpton has a funny rejoinder for every occasion.
- 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.
► answer 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! ► reply 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. ► response 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. ► retort written an angry answer given when someone has annoyed you or criticized you: · Isabelle began an angry retort and then stopped herself. ► comeback a quick answer that is clever, funny, or rude: · He walked out before I could think of a snappy comeback. ► riposte formal a quick and clever answer: · Anna produced the perfect riposte. ► rejoinder 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. |