witticisms in English
The acerbic Australian, equally at home dissecting serious cultural issues and Japanese endurance game shows, will be reading from his new collection of essays and dispensing bons mots, acid witticisms and Antipodean insights.
Use "witticisms" in a sentence
1. He thought his witticisms were amusing but found her response too extravagant.
2. A few of its witticisms are unnecessarily provocative and should be censored.
3. Witticisms, maxims, dicta, proverbs, and aphorisms each inhabit a different world.
4. At Sketch-Club meetings his witticisms were regarded as part of the fun.
5. Synonyms for Boffolas include jokes, jests, gags, quips, witticisms, wisecracks, crack, joshes, funnies and japes
6. She could never think of a clever retort to counter Ben's string of jokes and witticisms.
7. The pace of television favours simplifications, generalised statements, witticisms, and short sharp judgements on artists' performances.
8. His literary style was plain and factual, without witticisms or flourishes, and his character seems similar.
9. These are ways of saying something - metaphors, witticisms, allocutions, etc. - which are appropriate in one or another sphere of associative life.
10. Even more brilliantly — and Affectingly — they’ve constructed a world between them, an airy, reality-adjacent universe conjured in billowing clouds of witticisms, idle observations, passive
11. The careless and ungodly emboldened by the position of religious teachers, resorted to opprobrious epithets, to base and blasphemous witticisms, in their efforts to heap Contumely upon him and his work.: Los indiferentes y los impíos, alentados por la actitud de los maestros de