twit
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The “i” in twit was pronounced as an “a.”
From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2025
I’m not saying that Min has to be a privileged twit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
Immediately after elevating himself to self-proclaimed chief twit, Musk shoved out chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, the leader of all things trust and safety.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2022
But Musk has only proved he is a chief twit.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2022
Adek was a pompous twit who happened to be the son of my mother’s friend, and so occasionally we were forced to dine together.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Its inhabitants are those of “there will always be an England” England: stern vicars, timid curates, lords and earls, penniless titled wastrels living on allowances from their uncles, imperious aunts, upper-crust twits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025
In the song, by Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid, Luker twits her image as a “spoonful of saccharine” but also punctures it.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2021
Wodehouse, whose accounts of upper-class twits effervesce with smile-inducing similes: “She came leaping towards me, like Lady Macbeth coming to get first-hand news from the guest-room.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2021
It’s just that not sending a thank-you note could signal that we haven’t received it or that we’re ill-mannered twits.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2020
She stalks away, muttering about twits who flaunt regulation.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
At a rally last month in Youngstown, with Vance sitting in the front row, Trump twitted the candidate for his devotion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2022
He twitted Dwight D. Eisenhower for his dullness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2021
But then, haven’t you always wanted to see George R. R. Martin twitted for not having completed his book series?
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2017
For years, despite spending thousands of dollars looking for a cure and being twitted by his friends about his intermittent stupors, he was unable to do anything about his affliction.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Tyre before an hundred nobles assembled at a feast he twitted me with my poverty and boasted his charity.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth
But twitting a playwright for not being Shakespeare is blatantly unfair, so it’s best to leave the rest unquoted.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2017
Before long, the poster boy for “Tory modernization”—and, it emerged, a passionate user of the textspeak “LOL,” which he used to mean “lots of love”—was twitting away himself.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 14, 2016
The triangle always felt like a deliberate twitting of Twilight's similar setup.
From The Verge ● Nov. 18, 2015
When he coined that phrase 60 years ago, New Yorker writer A. J. Liebling was twitting Chicagoans for their obsession with not measuring up to New York.
From Newsweek ● Feb. 27, 2011
Twice Gleason saw him tête-à-tête with Miss Sanford on the piazza, and the garrison ladies were slyly twitting him with his prospects of being cut out.
From Marion's Faith. by King, Charles
