twit
verb (used with object)
to taunt, tease, ridicule, etc., with reference to anything embarrassing; gibe at.
has twitted
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present perfectof twit (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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He has accused the Tribune's TV critic of being soft on the CBS-TV station; he has twitted his network's leading local anchorman for commentaries distinguished only by "implication and innuendo."
From Time Magazine Archive
Ever since he arrived in Russia in February 1965, Rudd has twitted his hosts in sardonic, deadpan style.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Insull was unable to get them from Chicago bankers, a fact he has twitted them with on many an occasion.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a nation that has twitted the English with being a race of shop-keepers, our friends the Parisians who keep shops are not wanting in devotion to their own commercial interests.
From The Cockaynes in Paris Or 'Gone abroad' by Gustave Doré
