sharp-witted
Example Sentences
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After a single audition, Coughlan was cast as Penelope, a thoughtful, sharp-witted young woman with an overbearing mother and tacky, dim-witted sisters.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2024
Gwen Crockett said her daughter was a sharp-witted speaker from a young age.
From Salon • Jan. 18, 2024
Stardom as the sharp-witted Chandler Bing on Friends also brought fortune - in the form of $1.1m an episode - and a string of glamorous girlfriends.
From BBC • Oct. 29, 2023
Her talents are nicely showcased in this sharp-witted, frequently quotable comedy of manners and satire of campus life.
From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2023
Their amazement at me, my language, my rules, and ways, once subsided, I found some of these heavy-looking, gaping rustics wake up into sharp-witted girls enough.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
