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answer back
noun as in comeback
verb as in answer
Strong matches
verb as in back-talk
verb as in mouth off
Weak matches
verb as in react
verb as in respond
verb as in retort
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Example Sentences
“‘I voted that way because Mr. Boehner asked me to’ is not a good answer back home,” Mulvaney says.
It sends no answer back to me—that my human brain can understand—but it makes me feel that perhaps there is no earth at all.
But Mollie and Bab had no megaphone at their command through which to answer back—only two frightened girl voices.
Bring me a good answer back, and before three weeks I will have purged my forest of these vagabonds that brave us to our faces.
She flashed the answer back again, and laughed, with her cheek glowing on the pillow.
She and Jack had many differences of opinion, but to-night Jack was tired and her cousin decided not to answer back.
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On this page you'll find 153 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to answer back, such as: impertinence, back talk, quip, rejoinder, repartee, and reply.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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