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witty
adjective as in funny and clever
Example Sentences
Which will give us a completely different picture of Colonel Parker than most people have, because the letters are so eloquent, so witty, also so smart and so to-the-point that they’re just fascinating.
Their art was courageous, clever, witty, and beautiful, but also capable of inspiring bold change.
These texts are a treat, mingling hard facts with witty and intriguing tidbits about the science behind an item and its context.
Sometimes, as Mathews remembers, she was witty and joyfully impulsive, but she couldn’t raise her sons with anything except a hand-to-mouth existence and constant household moves.
On “Frasier,” the pompous, but lovable, witty, opera-aficionado, twice-divorced psychiatrist Frasier Crane has moved to Seattle.
Though conversational and often witty, his meandering phrases become increasingly unpredictable as they develop.
They are variously loud, meditative, dramatic, witty, sexy, searing, and elegiac.
The 16-song pop treasure chest comes to a thrilling close with “New Romantics,” a remix-ready stomper crammed with witty lyrics.
But instead of a witty pop song, we have yet more woe-is-me-feel-my-pain from an overpaid, over-cosseted celebrity.
But Poehler is, and has been throughout the run of her show, just as good: just as silly, just as madcap, just as witty.
At lunch he was the greatest possible fun, bubbling over with jokes and witty sallies.
She cultivated a witty habit of speech, the society of cabinet ministers, and her chef was a celebrity.
"When I wants a maid, I'll please mysel," a declaration which all present seemed to consider very witty.
The damsel, uninterrupted in her own loquacity, had not discovered that this witty gentleman was——dumb!
A witty knave bargained with a seller of lace in London for as much as would reach from one of his ears to the other.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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