whit
Origin of whit
1Words that may be confused with whit
- whit , wit
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How to use whit in a sentence
If, after all these years, she possesses any whit of performance anxiety, it has to do only with living up to the legacy of those who showed her the way.
Midori’s career started with a fleeting moment. It’s evolved into a lasting legacy. | Michael Andor Brodeur | May 13, 2021 | Washington PostIn 1997, whit Stillman re-created Studio 54 in its ornate lobby for his film The Last Days of Disco.
How to Save Silent Movies: Inside New Jersey’s Cinema Paradiso | Rich Goldstein | October 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHave you and whit wanted to hook up again since The Last Days of Disco?
Chloe Sevigny on ‘The Cosmopolitans,’ New York’s Frat Boy Takeover, and ‘Asshole’ Michael Alig | Marlow Stern | August 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTwo decades on from his masterpiece on anti-Americanism abroad, whit Stillman remains obsessed with native-expat dynamics.
Whit Stillman on the 20th Anniversary of ‘Barcelona’, His New Amazon Series, and the Myth of the Ugly Expat | Michael Weiss | August 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEven so, the comments were illuminating in that they show that Obama is of no frame of mind to change the current policy a whit.
The tone was set early when Republican pollster whit Ayers declared that “we are in an epic struggle against secular socialism.”
The rapid spread of the revolt was not a whit less marvelous than its lack of method or cohesion.
The Red Year | Louis TracyWas the second Charles one whit more desirable than the first of that ilk?
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.The tower in the Grand Place is very fine, and the bricks of which it is built do not yield a whit in color to the best stone.
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches | William Makepeace ThackerayHis flow of speech is incessant; he seems not a whit disconcerted by my evident disinclination to talk.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander BerkmanIsabel's theory of life—for women of her make—had not altered a whit, but the beckoning finger had lost its vigor.
Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
British Dictionary definitions for whit (1 of 2)
/ (wɪt) /
(usually used with a negative) the smallest particle; iota; jot: he has changed not a whit
Origin of whit
1British Dictionary definitions for Whit (2 of 2)
/ (wɪt) /
See Whitsuntide
of or relating to Whitsuntide
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