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- adjective
comparative form ofwitty : morewitty
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Examples
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It's also a helluva lot more consistent and funnier, with much better and "wittier" writing.
SNL’s Categorically Unjustified “MacGruber” Movie to Be Hard R | /Film 2009
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MR: In fact, you have a quote from him: "If I'd only known, I would have been wittier."
Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Video Exclusive: Playing For Change's "Groove In G," Plus A Conversation With Author Paul Samuel Dolman Mike Ragogna 2011
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Tickled, I found her jack-o-lantern smile, enormous eyes, and high-pointed eyebrows told of a darker, wittier person than I remembered from the movies.
Sam Wasson: La Dolce Vita, More Dolce Than Ever Sam Wasson 2010
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Tickled, I found her jack-o-lantern smile, enormous eyes, and high-pointed eyebrows told of a darker, wittier person than I remembered from the movies.
Sam Wasson: La Dolce Vita, More Dolce Than Ever Sam Wasson 2010
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But by firmly placing her story in the recent but, in other respects, unimaginably distant past, McAfee has given it greater and wittier resonance.
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Stripping the IM force down to leader Tom Cruise -- aided and abetted by Paula Patton, Simon Pegg and new recruit Jeremy Renner -- and paring the story down to a struggle to prevent a megalomaniacal terrorist from triggering WWIII, the film under the direction of animation vet Brad Bird, here making his live-action debut unpacks some of the baggage accrued in the previous installments to become a lighter, wittier exercise in epic action.
Dan Persons: Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Dan Persons 2011
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I should probably have something wittier to say to wrap this up, but I appear to have a cold.
Derek, if PTSD is suddenly a reason not to come to work, we're sending your whole damn team home. matociquala 2009
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MR: In fact, you have a quote from him: "If I'd only known, I would have been wittier."
Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Video Exclusive: Playing For Change's "Groove In G," Plus A Conversation With Author Paul Samuel Dolman Mike Ragogna 2011
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Stripping the IM force down to leader Tom Cruise -- aided and abetted by Paula Patton, Simon Pegg and new recruit Jeremy Renner -- and paring the story down to a struggle to prevent a megalomaniacal terrorist from triggering WWIII, the film under the direction of animation vet Brad Bird, here making his live-action debut unpacks some of the baggage accrued in the previous installments to become a lighter, wittier exercise in epic action.
Dan Persons: Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Dan Persons 2011
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The invented scene always concluded with a wittier exchange than their actual conversation had produced thus far.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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