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
But why had he needed aid, when he himself was so clear-sighted, so ready-witted, so fertile of resource?
From That Affair at Elizabeth by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
The medical mind is eminently ready-witted, and Dill at a glance took in all the dangers of removing his patient.
From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
Drop," said that ready-witted man in reply, "the charge of poverty against Harrison: say he is rolling in wealth.
From Quodlibet by Kennedy, John Pendleton
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