Sentence example with the word 'wittiness'

wittiness

brilliance, comedy, comicalness, drollness, funniness, jocoseness, joking, keen-wittedness, nimble-wittedness, pungency, saltiness, smartness

Definition n. a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

Last update: July 20, 2015


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Yet was this half-horrible stolidity in him, involving, too, as it appeared, an all-ramifying heartlessness;--yet was it oddly dashed at times, with an old, crutch-like, antediluvian, wheezing humorousness, not unstreaked now and then with a certain grizzled wittiness; such as might have served to pass the time during the midnight watch on the bearded forecastle of Noah's ark.   [Please select]

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Then, the wittiness of the drawing-room turned into shrewdness as it crossed the office threshold.   [Please select]

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