ready-witted
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of ready-witted
First recorded in 1575–85
Example Sentences
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A ready-witted patriarch with a slow drawl and snow white hair, Commissioner Davis was a Roosevelt appointee, specializes in fraudulent advertising.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thurman Wesley Arnold is just the kind of irreverent, ready-witted jack-of-all-trades whose presence with the New Deal in Washington since 1933 both businessmen and old-line politicians have found irritating.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whether he was the tool of other and more highly placed malcontents, or whether he was simply a ready-witted adventurer playing his own game, it is hard to determine.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
The ready-witted woman understood the lofty Indian spirit of 356 her brother.
From The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies by Cullum, Ridgwell
In fact, the wild and untravelled country was pathless as a sea, and nothing short of her ready-witted tact had been able to navigate it.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James
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