backchat

Example Sentences

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And if you’re a person like my own mother, who would never permit such backchat in her house, mazel tov.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2022

Writing in the first person as Nikki, he has created a character who peppers the patriarchy with rapid-fire volleys of backchat.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2019

If someone one position above you asks you to do something, you do it: there’s no backchat.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2017

It is the individual or group giving the machine a bit of backchat.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2013

Thus have I written online about the exaltations and lamentations of parenthood: potty training, ruined sleep, baffling toddler backchat.

From Time • Feb. 1, 2013