He would wittily chime into our conversation. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective, : a witty writer. ,a witty remark. From Dictionary.com.
Users, as the name wittily implies, are those who use BBS's. From Wordnik.com. [China: How Much Success?] Reference
Epstein wittily shivers and shimmies along compelling philosophical and psychological branches, finally wondering whether snobbery is simply part of human nature. From Wordnik.com. [01.04] Reference
Padma points out, kind of wittily, that everything fried tastes good: "You could fry my toe!". From Wordnik.com. [Jane McGivney: Top Chef: The Cored Apple of Doom] Reference
Madame de Nointel has wittily named her 'Zibeline.'. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This is the drug-free hall, as you so wittily observed. From Wordnik.com. [Boiling a Frog]
In Silver Lake, he was wittily known as "the Walking Man.". From Wordnik.com. [David Klinghoffer Saves Civilization] Reference
He who has joined it may have the ambition to write wittily or well. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
In response, Frum "wittily summarizes Taranto's argument," as The New Republic's. From Wordnik.com. [Who Snookered David Frum?] Reference
"It can keep," as Mr. Bright wittily said with regard to a subject of similar urgency. From Wordnik.com. [West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas] Reference
Bruno, are only brisk young men translating into the vernacular wittily his good things. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
This was wittily called the Kangaroo ticket, because the tail was the most important part. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
It was wittily said that the Whig party "died of an attempt to swallow the fugitive slave law.". From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
"I can neither confirm nor deny the truth of that allegation," he responded, wittily and wisely. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By Samuel Berger At Stanford University] Reference
As it has been wittily observed, the outside of a horse is the best thing for the inside of a man. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
We went up to the Archon's couch, where he and his old hetaira were dismissing each couple wittily. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
The article wittily entitled, "Mess-up-otamia" should be read by everyone who is not tired of that theme. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917] Reference
To talk wittily and well, or to lead others to talk wittily and well, was the crowning gift of these women. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
I agree, the worst case is that this wedding is a farce and your swallowed one-liners will be wittily accurate. From Wordnik.com. [Carolyn Hax: Third time isn't the charm for this wedding attendee] Reference
The view is not new; the feeling of surprise at opposition was expressed wittily by a French poet in the words. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Erasmus wittily said, Luther committed two unpardonable sins: he touched the pope's crown and the monks 'bellies. From Wordnik.com. [Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties] Reference
His speech had relation to an Army Reform Bill, and it was a mosaic of the aptest and most wittily applied literary quotations. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Gibbon's habitual pomp of expression, it was once wittily said that nobody could possibly tell the truth in such a style as that. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Some others would ampliate and enrich their native tongue with more vocables, which also I commend, if it be aptly and wittily assayed. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
"I think I just decided it was time to explain," as Mills put it in an interview (whose headline, rather wittily, was "Back to his routes"). From Wordnik.com. [The Maintenance of Headway by Magnus Mills] Reference
One shining exception is Agony, which wittily punctures the pretensions of two popinjay princes and is excellently delivered by Simon Thomas and Michael Xavier. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Woods] Reference
Whether it's unfair to Wallace (as the veteran journalist claims) we may never know for sure, but Plummer wittily captures the man's florid style and aura of self-importance. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke Gets In Your Eyes] Reference
The objections that English readers will make to his books are to be traced to no aberrations of his, but to those of the society whose follies he so ably and wittily depicts. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
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