riposte in English

noun

1

a quick clever reply to an insult or criticism.

The dialogue, too, feels like piecework, as if the bons mots and ripostes have been assembled from a library of index cards.

synonyms: retort, counter, rejoinder, sally, return, answer, reply, response, comeback

2

a quick return thrust following a parry.

Forcing the blade aside, he delivered a crushing riposte , thrusting with his weapon towards his midriff.

verb

1

make a quick clever reply to an insult or criticism.

“I'd have made lamb chops had I known you're a vegetarian,” Kris riposted

synonyms: retort, counter, rejoin, return, retaliate, hurl back, answer, reply, respond, come back

2

make a quick return thrust in fencing.

Jack yielded the parry, rolling his wrist into second to protect his right leg, and then jumped back again without riposting .

noun

• retort, counter, rejoinder, sally, return, answer, reply, response, comeback
• comeback, retort, replication, return, counter, rejoinder

verb

• retort, counter, rejoin, return, retaliate, hurl back, answer, reply, respond, come back
• come back, retort, return, rejoin, repay

Use "riposte" in a sentence

1. Riposte - Targets immune to disarm effects will now take damage from Riposte.

2. 10 Laura glanced at Grace, expecting a cheeky riposte.

3. This book provides an unanswerable riposte to such nostalgic nonsense.

4. She made a sharp/witty/neat riposte.

5. Laura glanced at Grace, expecting a cheeky riposte.

6. Only asking was a standard riposte from most Walworth kids.

7. Unflavoured ill-timed Henderson outtongue tackiness Berryings foreran unreasoningly! No-account Ismail riposte fadedly

8. And the most important defensive skill is the parry, which is often followed by counter - riposte.

9. The parry is the main defensive skills, often followed by the counter - riposte.

10. The photographer was lost for riposte, obvious though it should have been; instead he turned to run.

11. The operation is being seen as a swift riposte to the killing of a senior army commander.

12. Synonyms for respond Cheekily to include answer back, retort, riposte, counter, argue, cheek, quibble, react, respond and retaliate

13. Synonyms for say Angrily include snap, bark, snarl, retort, growl, rejoin, riposte, scowl, complain and say abruptly

14. The story was a riposte to a similar stunt pulled on Tony Benn by the Sun.

15. The immediate riposte to Schwab's list is that this is a case of motherhood and apple pie.

16. Clearly, if it is perceived as of comparatively minor concern, few countries would risk making a military riposte.

17. HP: Because Boey is an enemy phase unit and relies on Quick Riposte, a skill with an HP threshold to double, he definitely doesn’t want to decrease his HP

18. He adopted a flag that looked remarkably like a swastika, though he insisted that the design was of three interlinked 7s and represented a Christian riposte to 6 the Number of the Beast.

19. 9 Pasquier denounced the Leaguers as regicidal maniacs in his L'Antimartyr de frère Jacques Clément (n.p., 1590), itself a riposte to Jean Boucher's panegyric of the monk

20. "Annaline" (1995 version) by "The Horatii" from album "Riposte" 1995.Probey best Horatii song in my opinion.1st version available at the tape back at 1991.

21. His riposte to those who say that the defence budget for a medium-sized country with big economic problems should be spent on national security is that this is a matter of national security.

22. Almoravid: Reconquista and Riposte in Spain, 1085-1086, is a board wargame about a pair of tumultuous campaigns in the Spanish Reconquista - Leonese King Alfonso VI's advances against the 11th Century's fractious Muslim Taifa states, and the resulting intervention by a fundamentalist African Muslim army seeking to roll the Christians back.