Meaning of retortful | Babel Free

Definitions

Tending to retort or answer back.

Examples

“Notwithstanding the padre's regretful humiliations, from a lack of thoughtful consideration, he could not withhold a retortful reminder from his old noli me tangere opponent, of his more flagrant assumption;”

“Josh was in trouble at school today for being retortful!”

“‘Clever, fluent, versatile, ready, “retortful” and resourceful in debate’, Clifford was ‘the most literary Colonial Secretary Ceylon had ever had’.”

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