wit

Known for her larger-than-life image, Dolly Parton combined rhinestones, wit and charm to sustain a career that crossed from country to mainstream pop.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Thanks to her Appalachian accent, irrepressible talent and quick wit, she seemed to live on national television in the 1970s and quickly became country’s biggest-selling and most beloved superstar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

But even with all the music, movies, words and wit she left for us, a world without Dolly Parton is hard to imagine.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

If you haven’t been following the controversy, Wilson felt that Nolan had flattened the saga by mostly erasing the Greek gods and Odysseus’ wit, lust and thorny contradictions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

She confused wit with intelligence, and made people laugh rather than lightening their hearts or making them think.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart

The trip taught him how to rely on his musical talents and his wits to survive on the road.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

But when her real wits and intelligence come into place, it’s unbeatable.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

Readers will undoubtedly become better acquainted with the variety of American Christianity but will have to use their own wits to find patterns or hear harmonies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

I am reasonably educated, and at 64, I still have most of my wits.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 12, 2026

I sat down to think, and to collect my wits.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

And the qey wot adds sparks of raw jalapeño and tomato to chopped lamb.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2021

Let’s talk a little bit about wot the violence interrupters are.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2021

“Wot you ’ave to know about chimney flues,” he was declaring, “is that flues ’as several twists in ’em, cuz they’s attached to uvver flues wot shares one openin’.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2018

That doro wot, a resonant chicken stew flavored with berbere, cloves and goosefoot herb, is among the great chicken dishes of the world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2018

And if they’re in foreign languages wot I don’t understand, I shall be just as proud as if I did.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

The Utes surrender an average of 76 points per game, which is the wost in the conference.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2011

But this week the wost was yet to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ah fool," quoth she, "wost thou not what it is?

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves

Wast, wost, pa.t. 2d pers. sing. of the verb be.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Ha, thou mi wofull ladi diere, Which duellest with thi fader hiere 3570 And slepest in thi bedd at ese, Thou wost nothing of my desese.

From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay

We Are Young, too, is wistful for an era that was already full of wist.

From The Guardian ● May 29, 2013

By your blue eyes and flaxen hair I wist ye were Germans: and the printing-press spoke for itself.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade

But little wist Marie Hamilton, When she rade on the brown, That she was ga'en to Edinburgh town, And a' to be put down.

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

And again He came, and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy; and they wist not what to answer Him.

From The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick

Because herein ye did not right, To take the fair one lamb to smite That was of Urias the knight; Ye wist he had but one.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne

An agent is a paid and witting spy; he formally, sometimes covertly, works for a foreign government.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2025

“We expect financial institutions will undertake every effort to ensure that they are not witting or unwitting facilitators of circumvention and evasion,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement announcing the order.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

The problem isn’t that confirmation hearings are too hard on the nominees, who are, after all, witting and willing participants.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022

A witting asset is a person or entity who knows that there is a foreign power working in their interest.

From Salon ● May 22, 2019

People complain of the lack of power to concentrate, not witting that they may acquire the power, if they choose.

From How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett