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one-liner

noun as in quick sly comment

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Another unconventional character is Gudetama, or "lazy egg", who is living with depression and fires out cold one-liners that reflect dark realities of life.

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“Eventually Revolut froze the account. They told me there was nothing they could do. It felt like a one-liner to say sorry.”

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The latter dishes out some of the funniest one-liners when the writers poke fun at his extreme loneliness working in isolation and the imaginary friends he’s built to cope.

The expletives and biting one-liners that Eric Bieniemy unleashes on a football field never cut as deep as the internal dialogue.

Presidential debates are remembered for the candidates’ pithy one-liners.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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