ready-witted
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
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
The ready-witted woman understood the lofty Indian spirit of 356 her brother.
From The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies by Cullum, Ridgwell
“The cabin!” the ready-witted fishmonger commanded, and Lampaxo, scarce knowing what she did, released her ungentle hold on Lars and suffered her husband to drag her down the ladder.
From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns
They were still very young—Aria barely seventeen and Linde only fourteen, but they were active and capable and ready-witted, and their father had managed to save a little, though, alas, but a little.
From Fairies Afield by Molesworth, Mrs. (Mary Louisa)
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