twit
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Jane Austen wrote takedowns of this kind of ninny two centuries ago — how fun to see Pike update her twit to the post-Y2K era.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
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
The satire of a privileged twit is dry and delicious.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2022
Johnson thinks Macron is bit of a twit, and Macron thinks Johnson can be amusing but is a big, fat fibber.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2021
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
It’s impossible to believe that such sounds could have issued from such twits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
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
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
By combining rapid-fire wordplay, historical japery, the subversion of middle-class mores and the flaying of upper-class twits, Monty Python “took silliness to renaissance levels,” Thompson said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 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
Muskie twitted Carter about his inept fly casting but praised him for superb fly tying.
From Time Magazine Archive
I admit that my satire here was somewhat harsh and broad; but it had been provoked by an expression of Goldoni's, who twitted me with being a man out of temper with fortune.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Count Carlo Gozzi
Geez, these guys can't even keep their messaging straight - declining to speak on the record yet tapping and twitting on Twitter like there's no tomorrow.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2018
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
The Abolitionists and anti-slavery Whigs, who had been twitting the Administration with indifference about Oregon, now that Texas had been secured, could certainly find no fault with the President's attitude toward the question.
From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by John William Burgess
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