twit
verb (used with object)
to taunt, tease, ridicule, etc., with reference to anything embarrassing; gibe at.
twitted
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past participleof twit.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof twit.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
twitverb (used with object)to taunt, tease, ridicule, etc., with reference to anything embarrassing; gibe at.
Example Sentences
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At a rally last month in Youngstown, with Vance sitting in the front row, Trump twitted the candidate for his devotion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2022
He twitted Dwight D. Eisenhower for his dullness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2021
But then, haven’t you always wanted to see George R. R. Martin twitted for not having completed his book series?
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2017
President Coolidge twitted Governor Byrd about a cartoon in the Richmond Times-Dispatch which showed a Southern.Colonel peering through a knothole in the fence of a football field.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even Hoover had never twitted Lawton on the evidences of his poverty, and there were others of that immortal twenty-seven little better off than he.
From From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days by Charles King
