The Devil's Dictionary: Repartee

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
REPARATION
REPENTANCE

REPARTEE

-n.

Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.

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