quick and usually funny answers and remarks in conversation
Oscar Wilde's plays are full of witty repartee.
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a rapid and witty response in conversation, especially one that turns an insult back on its originator; or a succession of such replies in a dialogue between characters (usually in a drama). The term may also be applied to a person's talent for making witty replies.
Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.
A repartee is what a person thinks of after he becomes a departee. — Dan Bennett
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