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
"And what need your señoria know about the matter at all?" said the ready-witted Paco.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various
He was a cool, ready-witted, avaricious man, who had found industry profitable, and he had no intention of leaving the farm he had spent so much work on.
From Prescott of Saskatchewan by Dunton, W. Herbert
They are ready-witted perhaps, prompt and versatile, and easily adapt themselves so as to please and get acquainted with those they fall in with.
From Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) by Newman, John Henry
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