twit

How to use twit in a sentence

Wednesday came, and still he was well, with which his impertinent wife did much twit him in his teeth.

WITCH, WARLOCK, AND MAGICIANWILLIAM HENRY DAVENPORT ADAMS

With her free hand now she gave the string a small twit and watched the vibration run up and down the string twice.

But look here, old fellow, you were ready enough to twit me about not being with the army.

Besides, so very little has transpired to go by that I can't see exactly what they could either congratulate or twit about.

SOMEHOW GOODWILLIAM DE MORGAN

They twit us with our debased fondness for the tub, and they do but add injury to insult when they send us soap for use therein.

I am still strong, and not as the suitors twit me with being.

I was only sorry my father died before I could twit him with my triumph.

He was too wise then to twit those others with their unbelief.

"Ah, you need not twit me with what I said before I knew what your book was made of," said Mrs. Hartley affectionately.

NAME AND FAMEADELINE SERGEANT

Twitter, twit′ėr, n. a chirp, as of a bird: a tremulous broken sound: a slight trembling of the nerves.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985