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
Klauzar requires gabbi-ness in his girls because long experience has given him an image of the U.S. soldier far different from that of the flip, brash, nimble-witted G.I. projected by Hollywood.
From Time Magazine Archive
You were always nimble-witted, and you won't fail your own sister-born in a conspiracy so innocent and so amusing.
From Hollyhock A Spirit of Mischief by Rainey, W. (William)
