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Example sentences for: wit

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It is the emphasis of neologists, the nature of their interest in language, that is intriguing--an interest in playfulness over etymology, an emphasis upon the wit of brevity, and an ear finely tuned for useful novelty.
Surely a kinder and sadder story can be whittled from the same evidence, to wit: that Hillary, a blue-stocking in love with a glamorpuss, had too eagerly bought Bill's Gladstone-like tales of helping troubled young women to find peace: enough so anyway to make a potential laughingstock of herself by repeating them on television, and enough also to give Bill some terrible legal advice in the specific matter of Monica.
A man characterized by envy and cynicism, superficial wit and subterranean rage, ceaseless introspection and emotional detachment, insufferable smugness and barely concealed self-loathing, Jack is a bundle of apparent contradictions.
It's my quick and agile wit (see below).
The L was based on the W , but a comparison, albeit superficial, reveals a number of differences, to wit: