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• His comments were poignant and witty.From the entry poignant
• He’s witty, sweet, a great cook and easy on the eyes.2025 February 28, Laura Esther Wolfson, “Rules for Staying Close to Exes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry cad
• He told me about some “fatalities”—gruesome, witty ways of killing your opponent.2023 November 13, James Somers, “A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN. From the entry fatality
• He had to be tough, brave, witty, engaging – and decent.2016 March 3, David Thomson, The Guardian. From the entry triumph
• She features so many dance tunes and is a pistol with her sharp and witty remarks.2012, Jimmy Correa, How My Prank Stories in ‘You Tube’ Made Me an Overnight Sensation, iUniverse, page 102. From the entry pistol
• A bow tie apparently proclaims a man to be witty, brilliant, perhaps a chap of Thurberesque genius.2012, Gregg Stebben, The Man's Playbook. From the entry Thurberesque
• Aubyn and Patrick Melrose, the protagonist of his celebrated series of five wrenchingly sad, laceratingly witty novels.2012 March 14, Sarah Lyall, “After 5 Books, a Measure of Peace”, in The New York Times. From the entry hyperfluent
• She hoped her excuse sounded wittier to him—the man who enjoyed, as he’d probably put it, flusteriness.2008 October, Lisa Plumley, chapter 10, in Home for the Holidays, New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry flusteriness
• An incidental pleasure is his witty mastery of the scare quote and the square bracket.2006 September 6, “Where Hairsplitting Can Become High Drama”, in New York Sun. From the entry scare quote
• He was smart, tough, witty yet gentle all at the same time.2004, Jordyn Tate, Unforgivable Misconception, page 15. From the entry care bear
• Good looking, tall, macho-ish and strong but with a soft heart and a witty tongue.2001 September 14, mogliettina_1, quotee, “A Portrait of One Forum’s Grief”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry macho-ish
• "Did he say Nanny Goat?" Legrand asks, explaining the nickname in one quick, witty stroke.1996 November 23, Caryn James, “From Hero To Heroin And Back”, in The New York Times. From the entry mishear
• Richard Greenberg's witty, sometimes insightful look at the perils of yuppiedom is now at Broadway's Golden Theatre.1989 January 16, Ruth Gilbert, “Hot Line: The tops in town this week”, in New York Magazine, page 25. From the entry yuppiedom
• Wilson's definite genius for rapid, witty dialogue which becomes a kind of conversational music at times.1978 August 19, Kevin Warren, “A Flawless Production”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 5, page 15. From the entry music
• One was the wittiest, another the williest, the third the holiest harlot in his kingdom.1972, John Langton Sanford, Estimates of the English Kings from William 'the Conqueror' to George III. From the entry williest
• Witty, learned, imaginative, she was conceded to be the best conversationist in any circle.1914, Sarah Knowles Bolton, Lives of Girls Who Became Famous. From the entry conversationist
• They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.c. 1908–52, W.D. Ross, transl., The Works of Aristotle, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Rhetoric, II.1389b11, by Aristotle, →OCLC…. From the entry insolence
• I wanted more time for the two together, especially more witty barbs, since I revel in an enemies-to-friends-to-lovers trope.2020 January 29, Nathalie Graham, “Sweet As Vanilla Ice Cream”, in The Stranger, page 29. From the entry enemies-to-friends-to-lovers
• His witty songs, with their strong Latin flavor and Almodóvarian edge, evoked the narcissistic torments of a quartet of melodramatic Madrileñas.2017 November 1, Jesse Green, “Broadway’s Comic Chameleon Writes a Heartfelt New Tune”, in The New York Times. From the entry Almodóvarian
• My opinions are super important and also witty and smart—I think I will broadcast them all over the Internet!2015, Michelle Tea, “The Baddest Buddhist”, in How to Grow Up: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Plume, →ISBN, page 171. From the entry I think; therefore, I am
• In the seventh grade I admired a charismatic, witty girl who had a particular way of writing her lowercase a's.2014 February 23, Rivka Galchen, “What's Become of the So-Called Literary Bad Boy?”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry a
• Frank had won a reputation while writing the Times sketch as one of the wittiest writers and talkers in England.2012, Andrew Gimson, Boris: The Rise of Boris Johnson, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry sketch
• We are all often indignant, and sometimes witty about our indignations, but we do not thereby turn satirists.2011, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings, page 1. From the entry formful
• The Farkers who submit the stories also provide witty commentary.2007, PC Mag (volume 26, numbers 21-22, page 89). From the entry Farker
• The book is not particularly witty, clever, or useful.1982 February 6, Michael Bronski, “A Very Stale Crisp”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 28, page 11. From the entry nonbook
• His witty book ends with ski specialties such as propeller hops, gazelle christies, the gelaendesprung, the umsprung and the quersprung.1965, Curtis W. Casewit, Ski Fever: How to Master the Fastest-growing Winter Sport. From the entry quersprung
• Hastily adapted by slovenly hacks, their librettos (often witty in the original) became incredible farragos of metreless doggrel and punning ineptitude.1911, “Drama, 11f: Modern English Drama”, in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition. From the entry farrago
• While I was sitting carefully crafting witty Wagatha Christie tweets, Dougie was doing a deal that ensured he could retire before he hit forty.2023, Portia MacIntosh, Better Off Wed. From the entry Wagatha Christie
• “No, I don't,” I replied and quickly asked, “so, where are you now?” “Here, in front of you,” she replied with a witty smile.2018, Kishor Kunal, The Casted Minds: A Nation where Purity of Blood Matters. From the entry PJ
• I thought it was nine o'clock on U of T time." Classes started at ten past the hour so MacPhee thought he was being witty.2014, M.P. Fedunkiw, A Degree of Futility, Victoria, BC: Friesen Press, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry U of T time
• She made a witty comment about tissues: at least it wasnt a snottery tissue like how some people leave their snottery tissues on the baize.2012, James Kelman, Mo Said She Was Quirky, →ISBN. From the entry snottery
• In the best circumstances, he was devastatingly witty and slyly subversive; in the worst, he was merely a Tonto with an Afro.2007, Jabari Asim, The N word: who can say it, who shouldn't, and why, page 185. From the entry tonto
• Perot was witty and comfortable in his own skin, which I thought would reassure his supporters and perhaps sway some of the undecided voters.2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, →ISBN, page 439. From the entry undecided
• Wings' handling of the standard-issue Hammettesque equipment is light, fast, and witty enough to allow even inveterate non-readers of mysteries like myself to stay tuned.1988 December 11, Georgia Cotrell, “A Lezbeen Sam Spade”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 8. From the entry nonreader
• And we all know the saying, which is true as well as witty, that a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.1964, Peter and the Commissar, Allan Sherman and the Boston Pops. From the entry a camel is a horse designed by a committee
• Betsey Reed, Her Nibs, was just as witty and quaint as usual, sitting in state in her wheel chair and dominating everything and everybody.1920, Oreola Williams Haskell with Ida Husted Harper, Banner bearers: tales of the suffrage campaigns, page 345. From the entry nibs
• 'Slop' never seemed like a particularly witty or clever usage, but of course it's super-relevant and has spawned derivations like 'ultraslop', 'retroslop', even 'slopfrastructure' and 'slopsquatting'.[2025 November, Nicole Kobie, quoting Tony Thorne, “Glossary of the future: What does it all mean?”, in PC Pro, page 126. From the entry retroslop

Meaning of witty

1. adjective Clever; amusingly ingenious.
2. adjective Full of wit.
3. adjective Quick of mind; insightful; in possession of wits.

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How do you use witty in a sentence?

Witty is used as an adjective. For example: “His speech was both witty and informative.”

What is a short sentence with witty?

“His comments were poignant and witty.”

What does witty mean?

Witty means clever; amusingly ingenious.