How to pronounce“repartee”in English
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Definitions of “repartee”
A swift, witty reply, especially one that is amusing.
“Many persons must laugh when a great person or an acknowledged wit says a clever thing, such as a smart repartee, or a really good pun.”
A conversation marked by a series of witty retorts.
“Each meeting is free-flowing and the discussion less arch, less cut-and-thrust than the repartee at parties thrown in the book by the aristocratic `Guermantes family—although Proust teachs you to look for the unspoken in life as in literature.”
To reply with a repartee.
“Aubrey speaks of him as 'incomparable at reparteeing, the bull that was bayted, his witt beinge most sparkling, when most set on and provoked.'”
To have a repartee (a conversation marked by witty retorts or replies).
“To see them together, friendly, reparteeing, chummy, would turn your stomach--Barbara so exquisite and high-born, and the man, his eyes full of evil fires, sitting like a great toad on the model's chair.”
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