witticism

How To Use witticism In A Sentence

• The witticisms of Oscar Wilde are without a doubt some of the most amusing and perceptive observations on society.
• It was coals of fire, and often I was heartily ashamed of the feelings that I had entertained and the witticisms that I had made in petto. TESTIMONIES
• Maybe younger viewers will find these witticisms funny.
• Harris clearly knows it is a lying scare story, an imaginary "hobgoblin" designed to keep us alarmed & easily led & whatever his own witticisms, is desperate to censor any dissent. A Place to Stand
• He would start with off-the-cuff remarks and witticisms and gradually improvise a setting in which they could shine.
• How I long for the spontaneity of those social witticisms or emotionally charged exchanges.
• There probably isn't a better gift for a logophile or linguist than witticisms and wordplay - the clever kind or the chocolate version of such. Archive 2008-02-01
• Like them, he writes a kind of protest poetry: wisecracks and witticisms made in the tumbril cart on the way to the guillotine of literary judgment, perhaps.
• Indeed, the Artful, presuming upon their close attachment, more than once took occasion to reason gravely with his companion upon these improprieties: all of which remonstrances, Master Bates received in extremely good part; merely requesting his friend to be "blowed," or to insert his head in a sack, or replying with some other neatly-turned witticism of a similar kind, the happy application of which, excited considerable admiration in the mind of Mr. Chitling. Oliver Twist
• This was one of the witticisms of my clever friend, Mr. Robert Martin -- 'Bally-hooley'-one of the very few men who can write a good Irish song, and sing it well, into the bargain. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent