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
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)
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
A friend of ours made such a clever remark when he read it.’
From Beasts and Super-Beasts by Saki
Seward, however, consoled himself with the clever remark, that there is no great difference between an elected president of the United States and an hereditary monarch.
From Great Britain and the American Civil War by Adams, Ephraim Douglass
