witty
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amusing, bright, brilliant, crazy, droll, entertaining, epigrammatic, facetious, fanciful, gay, humorous, ingenious, intelligent, jocose, jocular, keen, lively, original, penetrating, piercingExamples from the Web for witty
Contemporary Examples of witty
Though conversational and often witty, his meandering phrases become increasingly unpredictable as they develop.
They are variously loud, meditative, dramatic, witty, sexy, searing, and elegiac.
The 16-song pop treasure chest comes to a thrilling close with “New Romantics,” a remix-ready stomper crammed with witty lyrics.
Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’: Country’s Prodigal Daughter Creates the Best Pop Album of the YearMarlow Stern
October 25, 2014
But instead of a witty pop song, we have yet more woe-is-me-feel-my-pain from an overpaid, over-cosseted celebrity.
But Poehler is, and has been throughout the run of her show, just as good: just as silly, just as madcap, just as witty.
Historical Examples of witty
All men—Spenser as well as Jonson—found him gentle and witty, gay and generous.
The Man ShakespeareFrank Harris
Ordinary London slang is full of witty things said by nobody in particular.
Alarms and DiscursionsG. K. Chesterton
He was young, well-spoken, witty, and skilled in all martial and manly exercises.
Micah ClarkeArthur Conan Doyle
I was in the mood to say pretty things, and I had never felt so witty.
The Middle Class GentlemanMoliere
The devil having him at advantage, began to be witty with him.
BunyanJames Anthony Froude
witty
- characterized by clever humour or wit
- archaic, or dialect intelligent or sensible