keen-witted
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Even keen-witted 93-year-old Joshua Green, from whose eponymous building the portrait had been taken, had no recollection of its provenance.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2023
He is keen-witted, clear-skinned, sound as a nut.
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Today a tottering but keen-witted patriarch, Mr. Korekiyo Takahashi was the first statesman of world prominence to seize last week on President Roosevelt's devaluation project as a basis for local action.
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An English explorer of note was saying ". . . and so I came upon a trunkless body" when keen-witted Lawyer Simon cut in, "You don't mean a trunkless body, you mean a headless body."
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Laurence Frampton had been scholarly, humorous, keen-witted, dry-tongued, and a professor of Greek.
From Non-combatants and Others by Macaulay, Rose, Dame