twit
verb (used with object)
to taunt, tease, ridicule, etc., with reference to anything embarrassing; gibe at.
had twitted
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past perfectof twit.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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President Roosevelt had twitted the "selfish few" in a speech at Gainesville, Ga. two days before.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had twitted me before upon my lack of scholarly bearing which, as I had always explained, was but a mask to unsuspected profundity.
From The Professor's Mystery by Wells Hastings
He had twitted her about her frank face.
From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Elizabeth Miller
He had twitted the doctor with his pride; had said that it was impossible that the girl should be called Mary Thorne.
From Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
This is a just nemesis upon Milton, who on his part had twitted Salmasius with having been complimented by the exiled King with a purse of 100 Jacobuses for his performance.
From Milton by Mark Pattison
