Crossword clues for wittily
wittily
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wittily \Wit"ti*ly\, adv. In a witty manner; wisely; ingeniously; artfully; with wit; with a delicate turn or phrase, or with an ingenious association of ideas.
Who his own harm so wittily contrives.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
adv. in a witty manner; using wit
WordNet
adv. in a witty manner; "he would wittily chime into our conversation"
Usage examples of "wittily".
Without appearing to notice me, the marchioness ran wittily over various topics until coffee was brought in.
The column was wittily written, and Qwilleran accepted congratulations from copyboys and editors alike when he went to the office to open his mail.
The Abbe Sieyes pronounced politics a science which he had finished, and he was ready to turn you out constitutions to order, with no other defect than that they had, as Carlyle wittily says, no feet, and could not go.
Therese and I laughed till our sides ached, the story was told so wittily and pleasantly.
She replied wittily and gracefully to all the questions which were addressed to her.
She wrote wittily, and her letters interested me to such an extent that I gave a formal promise to journey to Milan, if it were only for the sake of seeing her.
That evening, at the dinner table, she'd observed Alan in the company of his parents, seeing how, in the weeks since his arrival at Lake Skaneateles, he has become politely deferential to doctor Savage: wouldn't be drawn into an exchange when doctor Savage wittily denounced the Abstract Expressionists, murmured only a few words in defense of other artists with whom, in doctor Savage's eyes, Alan is associated.
In fact they persuaded him to such an effect that he became extremely rich at their hands, and the girl about whom he was otherwise destined to write which such precision never got around to leaving him, and in fact they moved out of the forest to a rather nice pad in town and he frequently commuted to the future to do chat shows, on which he sparkled wittily.
So I played up as seldom before, smiling politely, talking wittily at ease, breathing in the breezes of the distant mountains with every sign of content, coaxing Kralta to buy a monstrous hat in one of the boutiques, drinking in a beer-garden with Willem and shaking my head ruefully as he cheated me at bezique (father's son, no question), laughing heartily at the drolleries of Frosch the gaoler in Fledermaus at the little theatre in the evening, remarking at dinner that Austria's contribution to civilisation must surely be the art of cooking cabbage decently,17 rogering Kralta to stupefaction when we'd retired, and lying awake later with her sleeping boobies across my chest, cudgelling my wits for a way out.
And even if he did not, Captain Aubrey, even if he did not, it is no part of my business to take the Liberty, as you put it so wittily.