rejoinder

But it is also a rejoinder to the view, which I expressed, that ethical norms are paramount.
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If I could sum it up in a few choice words, I would, but instead I hem and haw, before stumbling through some rambling rejoinder.
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To which, so far as I can tell, the supporters of Chavez rejoinder thusly: the poor loved him.
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To every summons to duty, Heller has a clever and disturbing rejoinder.
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But that announcement was quickly followed by a sharp rejoinder from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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"The authority of Mademoiselle de La Vauvraye," was the unanswerable rejoinder.
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Without waiting for Mata's rejoinder, Um-ko, who had heard the words of the priest, now came swiftly to the veranda.
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After a few words from Mr. Harvey in rejoinder, his amendment was put and negatived without a division.
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"The 'ragamuffin' always speaks of his enemies with courtesy, and the filibusters love their leader," was her pointed rejoinder.
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"He would be an exceedingly unreasonable man who could find fault with such a wife as mine," was his smiling rejoinder.
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British Dictionary definitions for rejoinder

rejoinder

/ (rɪˈdʒɔɪndə) /

noun

a reply or response to a question or remark, esp a quick witty one; retort

law (in pleading) the answer made by a defendant to the claimant's reply

Word Origin for rejoinder

C15: from Old French rejoindre to rejoin ²

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