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wittiness

[wit-ee-nis] / ˈwɪt i nɪs /
















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“It’s the wittiness and it’s the material. You gotta do your homework, you gotta know everything about who you’re going after. Within reason, of course.”

From Washington Times Oct. 10, 2023

And you’ve nailed that thing about the wittiness of it.

From Slate Apr. 3, 2020

Or from the Nobel laureate George Stigler, whose essay “The Intellectual and the Marketplace” would have leavened Bacevich’s book with something it lacks: wittiness.

From New York Times Apr. 1, 2020

Moffat and Gatiss found a way to take often-used and referenced characters and make them feel fresh and new, employing a killer combination of wittiness, editing, and perhaps most importantly of all, casting.

From Salon Jan. 4, 2020

Two or three by the wittiness of their answers amused the mob and were thereupon acquitted, the acquittals being greeted by the spectators as heartily as the sentences of death.

From In the Reign of Terror by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty




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