formalANSWER/REPLY a reply, especially a rude one 〔尤指粗鲁的〕回答
He tried to think of a snappy rejoinder.
他试图想出一句简短的话来反驳。
Examples from the Corpus
rejoinder• It would be unfair to leave the discussion of the later Wordsworth without a rejoinder to what is usually said.• When I called him to object, the reporter said that his editorsintended to invite me to write a rejoinder.• Speech implies other speech, either preceding it, or as an anticipatedrejoinder.• Vic grunts, the distillation of an equally familiarrejoinder.• Freedom of choice is a feeblerejoinder when the issue is globalsuicide.• Sharpton has a funnyrejoinder for every occasion.• Eliot concurred; but he still felt that sometimes it was necessary to write a fairly sharprejoinder.