What's the difference between repartee and reparteed?

Repartee


Definition:

  • (n.) A smart, ready, and witty reply.
  • (v. i.) To make smart and witty replies.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The man who cannot hold his own in repartee will even learn other men's jokes off by heart, so that he can fill a void in the general banter.
  • (2) Imagine, if you will, Crabb, her basket crammed with scones and jam, rapping on the security gates at Eddie Obeid’s sprawling residence and then exchanging witty repartee while he works the stoves.
  • (3) During his first two stints as president, the former KGB agent demonstrated his gift at G8 gatherings and other international get-togethers for sardonic repartee mixed with snide remarks about western hypocrisy and double-dealing.
  • (4) Like other despots, Putin doesn’t have a sense of humour (though he can do sardonic repartee).
  • (5) In Stage Door (1937), she had wonderful battles of repartee with Ginger Rogers.
  • (6) And while the repartee goes on he is actually producing a painting: "I am trying to make a W out of cats," he says, twirling his brush.
  • (7) The tools of his trade are not manifestos and "worked-up" policies, but a pleasant face, a winning smile, some eye contact and cheery repartee.
  • (8) (The bizarre knot of branches top left in that Triumph of Pan and the foreboding chunk of pediment signing off The Triumph of David feel like Poussin's attempts at repartee.)
  • (9) It is surely no coincidence that, during their delightful repartee about the female assistant referee Sian Massey and the West Ham United vice-chairman Karren Brady, the disgraced duo similarly dismissed the female gender as "they".
  • (10) Pride and Prejudice is carefree in comparison, matching witty, warring lovers who act out their attraction in ironical repartee.
  • (11) Women are at least as intelligent as men, and they have as vivid and ready a perception of the absurd; but they have not developed the arts of fooling, clowning, badinage, repartee, burlesque and innuendo into a semi-continuous performance as so many men have.
  • (12) Never failing to laugh at the witty repartee, this tournament has been grand, and I do not care why.

Reparteed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Repartee

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The man who cannot hold his own in repartee will even learn other men's jokes off by heart, so that he can fill a void in the general banter.
  • (2) Imagine, if you will, Crabb, her basket crammed with scones and jam, rapping on the security gates at Eddie Obeid’s sprawling residence and then exchanging witty repartee while he works the stoves.
  • (3) During his first two stints as president, the former KGB agent demonstrated his gift at G8 gatherings and other international get-togethers for sardonic repartee mixed with snide remarks about western hypocrisy and double-dealing.
  • (4) Like other despots, Putin doesn’t have a sense of humour (though he can do sardonic repartee).
  • (5) In Stage Door (1937), she had wonderful battles of repartee with Ginger Rogers.
  • (6) And while the repartee goes on he is actually producing a painting: "I am trying to make a W out of cats," he says, twirling his brush.
  • (7) The tools of his trade are not manifestos and "worked-up" policies, but a pleasant face, a winning smile, some eye contact and cheery repartee.
  • (8) (The bizarre knot of branches top left in that Triumph of Pan and the foreboding chunk of pediment signing off The Triumph of David feel like Poussin's attempts at repartee.)
  • (9) It is surely no coincidence that, during their delightful repartee about the female assistant referee Sian Massey and the West Ham United vice-chairman Karren Brady, the disgraced duo similarly dismissed the female gender as "they".
  • (10) Pride and Prejudice is carefree in comparison, matching witty, warring lovers who act out their attraction in ironical repartee.
  • (11) Women are at least as intelligent as men, and they have as vivid and ready a perception of the absurd; but they have not developed the arts of fooling, clowning, badinage, repartee, burlesque and innuendo into a semi-continuous performance as so many men have.
  • (12) Never failing to laugh at the witty repartee, this tournament has been grand, and I do not care why.

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