Sentence example with the word 'wittily'

wittily

Definition adv. in a witty manner

Last update: August 11, 2015


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But his position in the history of Spanish literature is due to his Historia del famoso predicador fray Gerundio de Campazas, alias Zotes (1758), a novel which wittily caricatures the bombastic eloquence of pulpit orators in Spain.   [Please select]

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You made the observation yourself just now very aptly and wittily.   [Please select]

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She talked to him wittily of the Avonlea people and the changes in their old set.   [Please select]

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And as for our legal tradition, as you so wittily called it, I thoroughly agree with you.   [Please select]

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Patrick's wittily and logically expresseth it, That without which a thing is not, Is CAUSA SINE QUA NON.   [Please select]

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"Oh, that is a second-hand compliment," she said disdainfully--"a weak plagiarism on what I conveyed very wittily."   [Please select]

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He wittily says that Young America is _rampant_, parental influence _couchant_; and no reversal of these positions is as yet visible in 1892.   [Please select]

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As Voltaire wittily said of Dante, "Sa reputation s'affirmera toujours, parce qu'on ne le lit gučre."   [Please select]

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Patrick's wittily and logically expresseth it, That without which a thing is not, Is Causa sine qua non.   [Please select]

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Ham had attained to what Gene Hollister aptly but inadvertently called "notoriety": as Ralph wittily remarked, Ham gave to polo and women that which might have gone into high finance.   [Please select]

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A humorous reply appeared in the February number of the Bulletins de la Societe Geographique of Geneva, which very wittily showed up the Royal Society of London and their phenomenal sturgeon.   [Please select]

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