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
Now Khrushchev could dispense with stooges and talk man to man�and nimble-witted Nikita Khrushchev would like nothing better than such a talk with Ike Eisenhower and Harold Macmillan.
From Time Magazine Archive
On this occasion, Tilly was more knowing than Laura; but on this alone; for when Laura once grasped what they were driving at, she was as nimble-witted as any.
From The Getting of Wisdom by Richardson, Henry Handel
