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
I do not say that your countrymen are deficient in quickness and a certain ready-witted way of meeting emergencies.
From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James
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
"And who'll pay the messenger?" said the undaunted and ready-witted rogue, not in the least intimidated by the threat, and the mouth of a huge pistol at his breast.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by Roby, John
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