English-French translations for retort

repartie
réplique
réponse
La réponse de Wim Duisenberg fut cinglante: "il n'y aura jamais une coordination ex-ante avec la Banque centrale, vous allez toujours devoir réagir ex-post à nos décisions". Wim Duisenberg made the cutting retort: 'there never will be any ex-ante coordination with the European Central Bank as you are always going to have to react ex-post to our decisions.'
rétorquer
riposteJ'attends donc des excuses officielles, et non l'habituelle riposte arrogante. I therefore expect an official apology and not the usual arrogant retort. Je ne comprends vraiment pas pourquoi, dans ce jeu où l'on se lance tout le temps les mêmes ripostes, vous ne croyez jamais les autorités d'un État partenaire. I do not really understand why, in this game of slinging the same retorts all the time, you never believe the authorities of a partner state.

A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback
To say something sharp or witty in answer to a remark or accusation
To make a remark which reverses an argument upon its originator; to return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility
To bend or curve back
To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect
A flask with a rounded base and a long neck that is bent down and tapered, used to heat a liquid for distillation
A airtight vessel in which material is subjected to high temperatures in the chemical industry or as part of an industrial manufacturing process, especially during the smelting and forging of metal
To heat in a retort

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