Ripost \Ri*post"\, Riposte \Ri*poste"\, n. [F. riposte.] 1. In fencing, a return thrust after a parry.
2. A quick and sharp refort; a repartee. --J. Morley.
Architecture disappeared. Artistic life is no longer: it's all fraud.' The obvious riposte, I said, is that you are an old man who won't accept modern aesthetic values. Chaudhuri was angry.
Not many people realize this, but Wall Street's best riposte to the insider-trading scandals is to put every company in play.
And when a Wanniski associate, Alan Reynolds, wrote a column attacking Mr. Laffer's analysis, Mr. Laffer's riposte was: "It's sort of flattering.
As it was, we had to wait a few minutes for her inevitable riposte. She was, she said, 'somehow under the impression' that things were less lively, more courteous and much less robust in the Lords.
In riposte, it says its competing initiative will have some significantly differences - notably in terms of clearing arrangements, and offering settlement into scrip rather than cash.
Fed up with what he sees as the onward march of selling books like soapsuds, he thinks it time for a riposte. His father Jacques - a French emigre - co-founded the US publisher Pantheon in 1942.