All 5 Uses of
retort
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- "Then who can have latched the door?" retorted Nastasya.†
Chpt 2.1 *retorted = quickly replied
- In fact I have not peeped into the retort in which all this takes place.†
Chpt 3.5retort = quickly reply
- Though Katerina Ivanovna smiled, she observed at once that Amalia Ivanovna ought not to tell anecdotes in Russian; the latter was still more offended, and she retorted that her "Vater aus Berlin was a very important man, and always went with his hands in pockets."†
Chpt 5.2retorted = quickly replied
- But this retort did not benefit Pyotr Petrovitch.†
Chpt 5.3retort = quickly reply
- "Ach, Sonia!" he cried irritably and seemed about to make some retort, but was contemptuously silent.†
Chpt 5.4
Definition:
a quick reply to a question or remark -- especially a witty or critical one