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quip

noun as in witty communication, often verbal

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In one of the moments I chatted briefly with him he made a quip about my work that my mother still quotes to this day.

This man, the man of the left, says in private ‘the toothless,’ proud of his quip.

Pepper, a phrase drawn from a quip by another contender, means a second round in the presidential election, to be held in June.

Within hours of releasing my quip into the Twittersphere, five different publications jumped on it.

That quip reflected his own travails with thinking outside the box.

For a true pun always has a humorous idea behind the verbal quip that is its prominent characteristic.

It was a relief to hear his own voice in some such apparently light-hearted quip.

So Andrew Lackaday threw himself back in his chair and laughed at Elodie's quip.

Smiling, debonair, complacent, the morrow's bridegroom had a careless quip for all and sundry on that last night.

It was the traveler whose quip was now being repeated miles away, far in advance of him.

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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to quip, such as: banter, gag, gibe, pleasantry, pun, and repartee.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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