What is "witticism"

Usage examples of "witticism".

Helvius Pertinax, son to the prince of that name, lost his life by an unseasonable witticism.

It had become the jahar witticism to call them dhal and khal, the twins, because they spent so much time together.

There were present a young Italian woman, slight and fashionable, a young, athletic-looking Miss Bradley, a learned, dry Baronet of fifty, who was always making witticisms and laughing at them heartily in a harsh, horse-laugh, there was Rupert Birkin, and then a woman secretary, a Fraulein Marz, young and slim and pretty.

A dreadful silence reigned for four or five minutes, but the canoness began to utter witticisms which I took up and communicated to my neighbours, so that in a short time the whole table was in good spirits except the general, who preserved a sulky silence.

When the great man accompanied his witticisms with a graceful smile he could always get a laugh.

Tully leaned across the table and inclined his head towards the other end, where Laurie sat enraptured by Carline, who was laughing at some witticism he had made.

Besides standing a bikini-clad mannequin out on the curb in front of the store, painting an aircraft belly tank fluorescent orange and installing it on the roof after filling it with more bikini-clad mannequins, I began phrasing strange witticisms on a theater marquee in the parking lot.

He bore his burden -- the editorial cartoons, the smarmy jokes, the witticism that he had gone where no man had gone before -- with such di-rectness and good nature that at last America was able to forgive him for marrying a woman with the nerve to imagine that she could lead half the world.

He bore his burden--the editorial cartoons, the smarmy jokes, the witticism that he had gone where no man had gone before--with such directness and good nature that at last America was able to forgive him for marrying a woman with the nerve to imagine that she could lead half the world.

The witticism which will inspire this evening is as yet in Mr Todd's pretty reticent intellect, or locked in the jewelled bosoms of our city's gayest leaders.

I never see’d such a mighty rushin’” A chorus of good-humoured laughter greeted this witticism, which gave the company there present food for many jokes, for some considerable time.

Then I suddenly had the most tremendous feeling of the pitifulness of human beings, whatever they were, their faces, pained mouths, personalities, attempts to be gay, little petulances, feelings of loss, their dull and empty witticisms so soon forgotten: Ah, for what?

It was a mild enough remark, more pleasantry than witticism (he ordinarily left the wit to Bert), but Chancellor Rimer laughed hard.

I did not want traffic jams on the highway, dented fenders in the parking lot, brawls outside the bar and grill, shoplifters in the souvenir shoppes, or witticisms from Harve Dorfer.

You can toss off your witticisms, play the clown if you so desire.