Meaning & use
quipped
Said something in a witty, clever, or mocking way, usually briefly and in reaction to a remark.
See it in a sentence
"I could eat a horse," she quipped after the long hike.
He quipped that the meeting could easily have been an email instead.
A note on using this word
Quipped almost always introduces or follows direct speech and implies cleverness rather than a plain remark.
Words with a similar meaning
jokedretorted
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