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 said, at last: "These Boer dances are very low things;" and then, as soon as it had gone from him, he thought it was not a clever remark, and wished it back.
From The Story of an African Farm, a novel by Schreiner, Olive
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
You don't at all resemble all of us; you know everything; for everything that turns up you have a good, clever remark ...
From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert
I made what I considered a very clever remark: “Without an original there can be no imitation.”
From Diary of a Nobody by Grossmith, George
