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wits

[ US /ˈwɪts/ ]
[ UK /wˈɪts/ ]
NOUN
  1. the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception
    I was scared out of my wits
    he still had all his marbles and was in full possession of a lively mind
    he used his wits to get ahead

How To Use wits In A Sentence

  • I may be somewhat easy, but I am not without a modicum of self respect. watch me as I choose to sleep with an uneducated redneck over you, simply on the grounds that he's too much of a gentleman to say such things in my general vicinity. that in itself makes the 30-minute drive a non-issue. your pool table and your parents 'money do nothing for me the way his shitty crack shack does. silly little fuckwit. speaking of fuckwits, isn't it funny how WRITING the word fuckwit is so much more funny than SAYING it? go on! say it! isn't it weird and retarded? ps: the funk is gone. Dragonwench Diary Entry
  • One of my dazed wits tried to tell me the odds against this actually happening.
  • The Porto Rican boys and girls would be frightened out of their wits if Our Holidays Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas
  • Ascham, in his elegant description of those whom in modern language we term wits, says, that they are "open flatterers, and private mockers. Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
  • It especially showed up the dimwits in the chamber.
  • ADLER: Bonewits was founder and the archdruid of Ar nDraiocht Fein, a Druid fellowship. Longtime Paganism Leader And Lecturer Dies
  • ‘No’ she said sharply ‘but there is no reason for me to talk to brainless dimwits like you, I am after all your prisoner’ she said, and she scowled.
  • But the enemy of concord and the adversary of peace finding his projects to be thus illuded and condemned, and seeing the little fruit he had gotten by setting them all by the ears, resolved once again to try his wits, and stir up new discords and troubles, which befel in this manner. The Fourth Book. XVIII. Wherein Are Decided the Controversies of the Helmet of Mambrino and of the Pannel, with Other Strange and Most True Adventures
  • mester," and was laughed at by the Barbie wits who knew that "maister" was the proper English. The House with the Green Shutters
  • I hear from many people after the classes that they had been at wits' end, almost in tears, not knowing what to do with problem behaviors and not sure anything would help, says Hassel. Pet Talk: Be a Responsible Dog Owner
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