rejoin, sweet-talk, back talk, rejoinder,

Enough With the Sweet Talk

By JOE QUEENAN
Forget unfair negative reviews. The real problem is the unfair positive ones.

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By ELISABETH BUMILLERAn unreleased Pentagon report concludes that about one in seven of the 534 prisoners transferred abroad from the prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, returned to terrorism.

sweet-talk Show phonetics
verb [T] INFORMAL
to talk to someone in a pleasing or clever way in order to persuade them to do or believe something:
The salesman tried to sweet-talk me into buying a bigger car.

sweet talk noun [U] INFORMAL


backchat Show phonetics
noun [U] (US USUALLY back talk)
rude remarks made when answering someone in authority:
That's enough backchat! You do as you're told.

Meaning #1: an impudent or insolent rejoinder
Synonyms: sass, sassing, backtalk, lip, mouth


rejoin (RETURN) Show phonetics
verb [T]
to return to someone or something:
She rejoined her husband in Toronto, after her holiday in Paris.
rejoin the battlefield against us...

rejoin (ANSWER QUICKLY)
verb [+ speech] FORMAL
to give a quick answer to what someone has said, in an angry or amusing way:
"No, I do not have time to help you" he rejoined impatiently.

rejoinder
noun [C] FORMAL
a quick and often angry or amusing answer:
She always has a witty rejoinder to/for any question.