wit

Disraeli’s personality and wit contrast favorably with the manner of today’s bland technocrats who combine the temper of Victorian radicals with the tone of Georgian political managers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

It concluded in May with a season that tackled Hollywood injustices, intergenerational relationships and legacy-building with lighthearted wit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

This example of homespun Americana was first performed in 1932 by the Paris Symphony Orchestra under the direction of conductor, composer, musical wit and historian Nicolas Slonimsky.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

With a healthy dose of RuPaul’s signature wit and enough drag queen-friendly lighting to combat Hollywood’s run of dimly lit features, the team revives the disaster spoof with stylish aplomb.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

My love,, inflame me no more, lest you consume all my wit and betray my will Let men not censure my name that I call your love, that for which I rise and fall.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

They've broken new ground and set new records, they've challenged the way of things in Scotland and have scared the wits out of the biggest guns.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 12, 2026

They will need their ethical, intellectual and political wits about them to craft reforms and regulations, and to restore a sense of confidence in the department’s independence.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026

Takaichi offered to change batteries and lightbulbs of potential customers to get her foot in the door, using her wits to blast through her sales targets, said Satoshi Shima, another Matsushita graduate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

She must rely on her wits a great deal.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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

To thee ther mai nothing ben hid, Thou wost hou it is me betid: I wolde I hadde noght be bore, For thanne I hadde noght forlore Mi speche and mi virginite.

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

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 Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)

Lord God Almythti, thou it wost, Fadir sone and holi gost, To thee i menene my mone; For my spouse that was so trewe, Fadir hende brith of newe, Wol wo is me alone.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

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

I would be devastated if I never got to taste Genet Agonafer’s doro wot again, and I’m not the one laboring in the kitchen for three days on the sauce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2018

I says each time,—and I goes out in the air to say it under the open heavens,—‘but wot, if I gets liberty and money, I’ll make that boy a gentleman!’

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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

From The Guardian ● May 29, 2013

At first it seemed a little speck, And then it seemed a mist: It moved, and moved, and took at last A certain shape, I wist.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 19th 1893 by Various

Spenser writes— "Little wist he his fatall future woe But was secure: the liker he to fall."

From Great Ralegh by Selincourt, Hugh de

Unbroken was his heart, I wist, For he was thinking of a day— A day back in youth's rosy mist— And of a form and of a face.

From The Cornflower, and Other Poems by Blewett, Jean

I wist not what the present generation is coming to.

From Contemporary One-Act Plays by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

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

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2025

“I can’t but think of partial replacements as immoral because they involve a witting decision by government agencies to leave residents at continued risk of exposure,” said Lambrinidou.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2023

An intelligence organization — whether it is Russian, Iranian or American — looks at potential agent candidates, who can be witting or unwitting, with three key factors in mind: access, vulnerabilities and motivation.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2020

We believe that future campaigns will be compounded by the employment of witting or unwitting U.S.

From The Verge ● Aug. 2, 2018

It belongs to such alone To whom art of love is known: Seely shepherds are not witting What in art of love is fitting.

From A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Sidney, Philip, Sir