ready-witted
Americanadjective
adjective
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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
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
‘And you,’ retorted the ready-witted fellow, ‘may tell yours that you have had the honour of being shaved by the Mayor of Altrincham.’
From England in the Days of Old by Andrews, William
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
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