twit
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The “i” in twit was pronounced as an “a.”
From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2025
Nelis renders the professor a pompous and pedantic twit but not a heartless one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
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
Johnson thinks Macron is bit of a twit, and Macron thinks Johnson can be amusing but is a big, fat fibber.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2021
She thought about how he did not give a twit about the future, how he thought about the here and now.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
The first-act klutziness is even klutzier, and he’s made the unfulfilling choice to shift our attention from the starlet to her egotistic male co-star, sacrificing her emotional arc for some low-hanging jokes about pretentious twits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
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
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
On many an occasion I have a good laugh about these twits in my family—and it is a free country, so Instagram away if you want.
From Slate ● May 20, 2019
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
Beaver twitted the values of his parents without actually undermining them.
From Time Magazine Archive
In other days I had often been twitted in a jocular fashion by my friends about my membership of this particular club.
From Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance by Guy Boothby
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
“Come, summer visitant, attach To my reedroof thy nest of clay, And let my ear thy music catch, Low twitting underneath the thatch, At the gray dawn of day.”
From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 3 March 1897 by Various
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