0 a quick and clever remark, often made in answer to a criticism: --
1 to make a riposte: --
[ + speech ] "What about you?" she ripostes. "Is your life perfect?"
[ + that ] She simply riposted that she did not create the book for the scientific community.
At any rate, one can vary the riposte.
I thought that the riposte made to her was a complete misinterpretation.
I understand that she was struggling a little for the appropriate riposte.
I do not think the intervention was half as dramatic as the riposte was effective.
However, behind that riposte lies a sad truth.
They asked a silly question; they got a silly answer, and they made a silly riposte.
The bishops have taken to making political essays, and politicians, in perhaps an unwise riposte, have taken to sermonising.
This is just a momentary light, jocular riposte.
