clever remark
Example Sentences
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One clever remark read, “My favorite Star Wars memory would have to be the time Disney tried to lay legal claim to every tweet on Twitter that used a particular hashtag.”
From Slate • Apr. 30, 2020
At first I thought she had made an apt and clever remark; but on thinking it over I couldn't quite see its relevancy.
From Police!!! by Hutt, Henry
"That is an exceedingly clever remark of yours, young lady," Rawlins smiled.
From The Crimson Blind by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)
A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted, and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a "joke."
From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose
He would say that the whole hat trade of London was disorganised by the news that a clever remark had been made by a young M. P. on the subject of the imports of Jamaica.
From Varied Types by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
