Words similar to witticism

Example sentences for: witticism

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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.
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 .
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 .
What separates a jest from a witticism is its lack of malice.