nimble-witted
Example Sentences
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But don’t underestimate Alabado’s Dabney, the nimble-witted maid, who is too dazzlingly resourceful not to make her presence known.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
He was certainly nimble-witted and hard to trap.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2020
For Nancy Papadopoulos, a nimble-witted Minneapolis divorcee with a year of college, work would not be hard to find.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2016
Few British Members of Parliament perform in public as entertainingly as nimble-witted James Henry Thomas, Lord Privy Seal, Minister in charge of Britain's knottiest problem, Unemployment.
From Time Magazine Archive
How she divined his thought, and snatched it from his mind always, this nimble-witted child!
From A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon Blackwood
