twit
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Jane Austen wrote takedowns of this kind of ninny two centuries ago — how fun to see Pike update her twit to the post-Y2K era.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
Immediately after elevating himself to self-proclaimed chief twit, Musk shoved out chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, the leader of all things trust and safety.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2022
But Musk has only proved he is a chief twit.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2022
"I honestly don't recall, and neither will Aegon," she flatly, frosty replies in a tone that leaves the obvious unsaid: "Two-year-olds have the long-term memory of raw hamburger, you twit."
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2022
Rachel/Rachelle and some other twit natter about the movie date before Mr. Stetman starts class.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
We like Cumberbatch and Colman’s Theo and Ivy, even after they’ve become tantrum-throwing twits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
In the song, by Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid, Luker twits her image as a “spoonful of saccharine” but also punctures it.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2021
Wodehouse, whose accounts of upper-class twits effervesce with smile-inducing similes: “She came leaping towards me, like Lady Macbeth coming to get first-hand news from the guest-room.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2021
By combining rapid-fire wordplay, historical japery, the subversion of middle-class mores and the flaying of upper-class twits, Monty Python “took silliness to renaissance levels,” Thompson said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2020
She stalks away, muttering about twits who flaunt regulation.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
At a rally last month in Youngstown, with Vance sitting in the front row, Trump twitted the candidate for his devotion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2022
He twitted Dwight D. Eisenhower for his dullness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2021
But then, haven’t you always wanted to see George R. R. Martin twitted for not having completed his book series?
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2017
At Paris last week he twitted the U. S. clubmen on their distaste for water.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are accustomed to being twitted by rivals in the rear on their boundless faith in their city’s future greatness.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 by Various
But twitting a playwright for not being Shakespeare is blatantly unfair, so it’s best to leave the rest unquoted.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2017
Before long, the poster boy for “Tory modernization”—and, it emerged, a passionate user of the textspeak “LOL,” which he used to mean “lots of love”—was twitting away himself.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 14, 2016
The triangle always felt like a deliberate twitting of Twilight's similar setup.
From The Verge ● Nov. 18, 2015
When he coined that phrase 60 years ago, New Yorker writer A. J. Liebling was twitting Chicagoans for their obsession with not measuring up to New York.
From Newsweek ● Feb. 27, 2011
The Right Hon. Mr. M—— was not above twitting Lord S—— with gunroom stories, and suffering in turn good-natured libel.
From The Half-Hearted by John Buchan
