A witty remark is clever and funny and timed just right. When you make such a remark, you are also considered to be witty.
Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning.
Adjective S.
combining clever conception and facetious expression; "his sermons were unpredictably witty and satirical as well as eloquent"
n.
Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious;
clever; cunning.
n.
Especially, possessing wit or humor; good at repartee;
droll; facetious; sometimes, sarcastic; as, a witty remark, poem, and
the like.
Witty
Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning.
Usage Examples
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
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Other Usage ExamplesWit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
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