How To Use Wittily In A Sentence

  • Wiig plays Annie, first seen being humped vigorously by the wittily caddish Jon Hamm, who doesn't notice or care that his partner isn't exactly enjoying herself. Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Bridesmaids
  • And although the gulling of Benedick is wittily done - with an importunate boy messenger demanding a tip from the supposedly hidden protagonist - that of Beatrice lapses into farce as she is drenched by a garden hose.
  • He wittily disposes of the argument against women's ordination, which is premised on the fact that the Twelve Apostles were all men: "No Celts were among Jesus's Apostles, but the Irish can be ordained. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
  • The word was apparently coined in the 1790s by David's students, wittily combining rocaille and barocco, to refer disparagingly to the taste fashionable under Louis XV.
  • He wittily captures the psychology of the situation without actually showing many of the faces.
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  • Each week, members of the public get the chance to lure their loved ones into wittily original set-ups, scrapes and moral dilemmas.
  • The definitive upscale society animal: a baggily handsome, cigar-wielding martini aficionado who only seems to exist in the half-light of wittily conceived, beautifully styled cocktail lounges.
  • Ian addressed the assembly on behalf of the students, speaking warmly and wittily of his time in the school.
  • The third-season opener wittily reunited Heaton with her Everybody Loves Raymond hubby Ray Romano, who guested in a flashback as Mike's nudnik ex-high-school classmate who nearly ruined his honeymoon with Heaton's Frankie. Cheers & Jeers: Why Doesn't Everybody Love The Middle?
  • Boyle's novels are wittily and slyly satiric about the earnest, innocent reforming utopians who questioned social attitudes and proselytised progressive, perfectionist ideals.
  • How many wise sayings have been called jests because they were wittily uttered! Tomlinsoniana
  • He wittily captures the psychology of the situation without actually showing many of the faces.
  • he would wittily chime into our conversation
  • And so I used hyperbole in writing a wittily scathing song back. Times, Sunday Times
  • As it was radio for which he has a good face I couldn't tell whether he was blushing or smirking when he smugged wittily about the discl;osure of MPs second home allowances. Hugo 'Phonebox Spotter' Rifkind?
  • The least of these illuminators, with his insignificant eyeless face, possesses at his fingers 'ends the maximum of dexterity in this art of decoration, light and wittily incongruous, which threatens to invade us in France, in this epoch of imitative decadence, and which has become the great resource of our manufacturers of cheap "_objects of art_. Madame Chrysantheme
  • But of course he says this, and a great deal more, far more wittily and scorchingly every time he goes into a recording studio.
  • That's the social safety net you've been sneering at, oh-so-wittily placing the phrase in shudder-quotes. Archive 2009-02-01
  • In the breakfast room, over poached eggs, she talks wittily and uninhibitedly.
  • Now the artist Jason Salavon has produced a set of images that riff wittily on the culture of the centerfold.
  • His masterpiece is Rossetti and his Circle, published in 1922, which wickedly and wittily anatomizes the foibles of the Pre-Raphaelites.
  • There was no sporting reference in that primitive debutant issue of 25 October 1961 – six corny homemade pages printed on yellow paper – but over the following half-century the magazine has significantly cast its wittily baleful eye over the prolix and self-important pomposities of modern professional sport and thank heaven for it. Fifty years of Private Eye's eccentric eye view of sport | Frank Keating
  • And, naturally, most of the elements that made "Madagascar" all those millions are back, including lemur leader King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen with a wittily un-peggable dialect), and the song -- the song -- "I Like to Move It. Top Stories - Google News
  • In one of his early sonnets, Shakespeare wittily turns such "unthrifty" wasting into economic malpractice: Me, Myself, and I

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