Words similar to witticism

Example sentences for: witticism

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What separates a jest from a witticism is its lack of malice.
While the leap from a sound bite to a witticism appears to be easy to manage, few politicians have been inclined to take the risk and be labeled as a wise-guy or a smart-ass .
A sally is defined in the American Heritage Dictionary as a sudden quick witticism.
In a way a joke, in its structure, is the antithesis of a witticism in that is usually placed within a narrative framework and withholds any response until the punch line is reached.
American examples of this type of witticism include, from George Jean Nathan's Monks Are Monks (1929), as bored as an oil-well and as swell as the mumps .