ready-witted
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of ready-witted
First recorded in 1575–85
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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
Thou hast shown thyself to be ready-witted and brave, and if thou rememberest always that it is better to please God than man, thou wilt not fail to succeed in thy undertakings.”
From John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea by Kingston, William Henry Giles
But it is men like you, Cregan, I want,—shrewd, sharp, ready-witted dogs; quick to remark, and quicker to report.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James
All that I know of life convinces me that the successful men are the ready-witted men.
From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James
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