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
When he does, he will almost certainly be a versatile, nimble-witted "generalist" rather than a narrow specialist.
From Time Magazine Archive
But in England ladies and gentlemen were not so nimble-witted as to be able to conceive the possibility of a world without powder.
From And Even Now by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
