ready-witted
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of ready-witted
First recorded in 1575–85
Example Sentences
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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
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
Whereupon the ready-witted woman at once replied: "I am glad that I am not the wife of a miserable coward that ran away from a battle-field."
From Portrait and Biography of Parson Brownlow, The Tennessee Patriot by Brownlow, William Gannaway
This ready-witted and poetical Ghebir met his death, not long after, in one of his own sacred elements, being drowned in the Mahr River, 'where ford there is none.'
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 Volume 18, New Series, September 11, 1852 by Chambers, William
She showed a brave face to people, and tried to be as bright and ready-witted as ever; and if she failed it was not her own fault.
From Vagabondia 1884 by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
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