witty
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Production on Season 3 of “Wednesday” officially got underway near Dublin earlier this year, with Ortega returning as the morbidly witty Wednesday Addams.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
In Crompton’s joyful and witty stories, however convoluted their plots, things come right in the end—if not for everyone, always for just William.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Will it capture Austen’s witty text and unforgettable scenes of yearning?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 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 felt free to be herself—opinionated, witty, and playful—and, of course, the two hit it off right away.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
“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
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
The peanut gallery, up front, consists of the older brother, who is driving, and his mother, who is wittier than her husband but less of a show-off.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
Low farce is a high calling, and wittier examples such as Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off” do more with wee things like, say, character and story.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 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
The wittiest thing about “Antebellum” is probably the title, though that also may be, at first, a source of confusion.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2020
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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