riposte
Example Sentences
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Bellingham found the net late in the rout of Monaco and celebrated by chugging imaginary drinks, which was an apparent riposte to claims he has been enjoying Spanish nightlife.
From Barron's
Confronted by what the authors call “unrelenting brutality,” when given the chance—for example, after the British riposted in the South from late 1778—this beleaguered minority readily retaliated.
We'll get Rodgers's riposte in time, but his era is over now.
From BBC
As critic Gary Scharnhorst writes in an afterword to a recent edition of this classic: “The riposte to ‘it can’t happen here’ is ‘it already has.”
From Salon
At a grassroots level, inspired by the reclamation of queer by the gay rights movement, B***h Magazine launched in 1996 in Portland, Oregon, as a feminist riposte to demeaning stereotypes.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
