wittiness

Example Sentences

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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

The sweetness is always still wrapped in the self-centeredness and the wittiness and the jerk face stuff that I say.

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2023

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

This is the manner of wittiness without the matter.

From Slate • Nov. 30, 2017

Visitors to the house in later years dwell on Mrs. Chesterton's immense spirit of hospitality, the gargantuan meals, the eager desire that guests should eat enormously, and the wittiness of her conversation.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie