witty
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Angela Jain, head of content at Disney+ EMEA, said Higgins' name was a "shortcut" for a tone that is "cheeky, fun, witty, and warm".
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Her breakthrough role came in 2001 when she was cast as Dawn, the sympathetic and witty receptionist in Gervais and Stephen Merchant's Bafta-winning office-based sitcom.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
She’s also so funny and so witty and very charismatic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Seldom, though, has this story had as wise and witty a narrator as Robert O’Connell, a military historian whose sharp-edged style is evident right from the cheeky title of his book “Band on the Run.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
I had been laughed at for being a fool, but never for being witty.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
“Why should we follow the old ways? Were they so perfect as to leave no room for something bolder, tougher, wittier, more equal and more just?”
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2024
The show, directed by Gordon Greenberg, features a witty book by Jonathan A. Abrams and even wittier choreography by Lorin Latarro; there was a pre-Broadway production at the Old Globe in San Diego in 2018.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
Allen, as always, is comfortable in his fat suit, and as before, the television series is better than the movies were — just as silly but much wittier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
Other participants in the march included children and pensioners and everyone in between, with protesters engaging in good-natured competition over whose banner or placard was wittier.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 23, 2018
“Yes, very soon. He gave me a quiet hint; I told him he was mistaken; he asked my pardon and said no more. Cole does not want to be wiser or wittier than his neighbours.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
Her visual recreation of the “Tropicoqueta” album cover onstage was one of the show’s wittiest moments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Ernst Lubitsch is best remembered today for directing some of the wittiest, sauciest Hollywood romantic comedies of the 1930s and ’40s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
Australian-British author of the 1979 novel Puberty Blues, Kathy Lette, remembered Sir Tom as "one of the wittiest people I ever met".
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2025
But the wittiest items required a trip to a model railway shop.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2022
Miss Matilda Maddox, you are the wittiest, most fascinating flower to bloom in Baltimore in years.”
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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