counterstatement

[koun-ter-steyt-muhnt]

noun

1. a statement made to deny or refute another statement.

Word History and Origins

Origin of counterstatement¹

First recorded in 1850–55; counter- + statement

Example Sentences

In the mid-1960s, when conceptual art, Pop Art and minimalist sculpture were in the ascendancy and painting was declared dead by many critics and artists, Mr. Marden issued a powerful counterstatement.

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Hours later, Mr. Berman issued a counterstatement denying he was leaving.

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It’s a provocative, line-by-line, video counterstatement.

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He had received nearly a dozen new cases — all decided in the weeks immediately surrounding DeVos’s speech — in which he believed the schools had meted out unduly harsh penalties to make “a political counterstatement.”

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By the time the Trump administration moved its war games into high gear this week, Kamasi Washington, the tenor saxophonist, had already issued a counterstatement.

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Related Words

• rebuttal 
• repartee 
• retort