repartee

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I also consulted the book "Viva La Repartee" by Mardy Grothe.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 11, 2011

Repartee mingled with delicate sarcasm, and new, and almost indefinable shades of meaning were given to old and trite expressions.

From The Motor Girls on the Coast or, The Waif From the Sea by Penrose, Margaret

Repartee is not a weapon for every-day use.

From Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. by Frost, Sarah Annie

Repartee is saying on the instant what you didn't say until the next morning.

From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by Fanning, C. E. (Clara Elizabeth)

When a Poet has found the Repartee; the last perfection he can add to it, is to put it into Verse.

From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Arber, Thomas Seccombe, Professor