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- noun Plural form of
witticism .
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Examples
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Many "witticisms" are reasonings of this kind, considerably abridged reasonings, of which we are given only the beginning and the end.
Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic Henri Bergson 1900
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Look at me, I can come up with facile anti-semetic "witticisms" when I'm not looking at porn!
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"witticisms" to tell us about the world of the poets, a good number of poems seem to me even a little light-minded.
Eurozine articles 2009
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Lush's hand-scrawled witticisms in the gallery are similar to his sardonic sticker tags, though using the platform to out-do himself by painting aphorisms appended by his own ridicule.
John Wellington Ennis: Lush Sells Out in LA (Photos) John Wellington Ennis 2011
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Then there was the story of the American baseball player Yogi Berra, who was famous for his pithy comments and witticisms known as Yogi-isms.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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He found himself thinking hard about witticisms that would live up to Molly's complements, and lost all spontaneity.
Daniel in a Den of Liberalism vic fortezza 2011
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You can keep your sophomoric, sorry, moronic, witticisms for your late nights in strip clubs ... al
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Lush's hand-scrawled witticisms in the gallery are similar to his sardonic sticker tags, though using the platform to out-do himself by painting aphorisms appended by his own ridicule.
John Wellington Ennis: Lush Sells Out in LA (Photos) John Wellington Ennis 2011
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Ike was prepared with carefully rehearsed witticisms for the rest of the discussion.
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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Ike was prepared with carefully rehearsed witticisms for the rest of the discussion.
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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