How To Use Quick-witted In A Sentence
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Life has made the children brave, quick-witted and self-reliant, but their parentless hearts are hungry, and that longing shapes their actions.
Children's Books: 'The Emerald Atlas'
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Undemonstrative, quick-witted, alert and intelligent: he has it all.
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Jim Norton plays Finian with Irish charm; his Finian is a lovable conniver blessed with a glint in his eye and an endless supply of quick-witted retorts.
Crazytown, Missitucky
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Within 18 months, he had fallen in love with a pretty, quick-witted copygirl, Barbara Stone, and after a terrifying, if occasionally thrilling, baptism of snootiness by her family — New Year’s at Arturo Toscanini’s house, a frightening experience with a finger bowl — he married her.
The Gelb Family
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He was pertinacious, thorough and, despite the somewhat ponderous brutality of his appearance, he was quick-witted.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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He was a good guy - quick-witted, intelligent and funny when the right moment arose.
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Unfaithful, sly, smooth-talking and quick-witted, 350 million people tuned in from around the world to find out who shot him.
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It is full of absurd would-be lovers, quick-witted opportunists, cold-hearted villains and crackpot eccentrics.
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A very smart and quick-witted comic, Wuhl always has tons of energy that holds the film together and keeps it moving.
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Frightened but quick-witted, the shapely skin diver outmanoeuvres the silent predator and stays low among the coral and such, where the shark can't get her.
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Though all the clever and distinctive stylistic tics are there, the dialogue isn't nearly as sharp or quick-witted and the plot itself is rather lumbering, meaning the pace flags and sags on too many occasions.
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Thank God for the quick-witted chorus member that ad-libbed the line ‘that sir, is this thing falling on top of us’ - it allowed the audience to laugh as the actors collected themselves.
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Intellectually quick-witted and bright, with an abrasive edge, Reid did well in school.
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As always, Rathbone gives us a Holmes that is quick-witted and focused, able to deduce what mere mortals cannot.
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He looks powerful but perfectly balanced, and his manner is alert and quick-witted.
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She was loving and generally patient with those she deemed worthy, and, as I said before, she was quick-witted and intelligent.
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The ballet begins in Egypt with Cleopatra luxuriating in her bath, and swiftly moves on to her quick-witted evasion of an assassination attempt by her brother to her triumphant seduction of Caesar and decampment to Rome.
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He was funny, quick-witted and very sarcastic.
Times, Sunday Times
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In local parlance he would be regarded as a ‘character’, quick-witted and always ready for a bit of ‘devilment’.
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Quick thinking, quick-witted, not reflective or philosophical.
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The tendency to graze cattle, which is not hard work, and to "gad" about to cattle fairs, which are esteemed the greatest diversion the country affords, is an indication of the distinct superiority of the quick-witted Celt to the dull Saxon hind.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
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Hicks is a true American original: handsome, well spoken, intelligent and quick-witted, intensely passionate and fiercely political.
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The quick-witted will have gone instantly to the heart of the problem: what mysterious attribute distinguishes sport from games?
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He was a wonderfully sweet-natured boy; quick-witted, willing, and had a nose for golf.
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Wu is widely deemed a quick-witted, experienced administrator of affairs on the island.
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A spry and quick-witted woman that, although in her mid-fifties, still didn't act a day over twenty-five, she had been, and always would be, the person that I truly looked up to the most.
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Naturally quick-witted with a sharp tongue, he ponders decisions with mathematical precision.
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Forgive me, quick-witted reader, if this quodlibet to Q has made you querimonious; I'll leave the letter and return to Q, the woman, after I tax you with one more notion.
'Roads to Quoz'
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More plausible and quick-witted was a smooth-tongued operator who employed the alias ‘Ethelbert Louis Hector Alfred, Baron de Richemont’.
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Intellectually quick-witted and bright, with an abrasive edge, Reid did well in school.
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He is really quick-witted and smart.
The Sun
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He is a shoo-in for any quick-witted verbal gameshow that requires surreal rambling and a straight-faced delivery.
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She is also quick-witted and funny.
Times, Sunday Times
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A quick-witted neighbor heard the screams and called the police.
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Tom is a quick-witted, but self-absorbed fantasiser who, due to the suffocating mall atmosphere, is beginning to hallucinate.
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She's clearly an intelligent woman, quick-witted and self-effacing, so doesn't she worry that her job is essentially stupid?
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Frightened but quick-witted, the shapely skin diver outmanoeuvres the silent predator and stays low among the coral and such, where the shark can't get her.
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Fact is, Carson was as brilliant and quick-witted a comedian then, in 1989, as he was in 1969.
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The puppet is quick-witted and charming but also consistently menacing — which reminds us, of course, of Gibson the very bad boyfriend and tabloid star.
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saved an embarrassing situation with quick-witted tact
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When asked about the vacant manager's post at Spurs, O'Neill response was quick-witted.
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He knew he was attractive to women: good-looking enough, thoughtful, quick-witted, well-spoken, and ambitious.
O: A Presidential Novel
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I found Jason to be very smart and quick-witted.
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Dan's quick-witted mind and surreal flights of fancy have delighted both critics and comedy audiences alike.
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quick-witted debater
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Brady is quick-witted and articulate.
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Though a stranger in a strange land, Maria is quick-witted, intelligent, and empathetic enough to figure out how to deal with the various characters she comes across.
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And when that draws sarcastic comment from the management team, his ability to offer quick-witted retorts allows him to ride the banter as effortlessly as another lunge from a desperate defender.
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Paddy can be clever and quick-witted enough when presented with an opportunity to shirk the duties set forth in his indentures, but otherwise he's as weak-minded as a fish.
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Confident to the point of brashness, intelligent and quick-witted - all key attributes for an MC - he's a product of his surroundings.
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But quick-witted Mrs. Holmes guessed the word had been "waif" -- poor little waif, and she began dimly to comprehend the big-hearted, rough tent-man, who had tried to guard this little foreign maid from the ignorance and evil about her.
Stage Confidences
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With Mercury in Aries and the Sun in the 3rd house ruled by Mars, he was quick-witted, intellectually motivated, an avid reader and a passionate speaker.
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It's one thing to be smart and quick-witted, but can you back it up?
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Friendly banter between the two bus drivers continued with each set of supporters waving flags and indulging in quick-witted slagging.
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Brenda is lewd, tough, quick-witted, hilarious - a more vivid character than any fictional personage in recent American movies.
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This uber-entertaining masterpiece of a sitcom embodies the extremely rare ensemble "chemistry" of Friends, the quick-witted and cutting topical relevance of Frasier, the clever multi-plot-line & thematic interweaving prowess of Arrested Development, and the blithesome, almost unnerving demonstration powerful family love reminiscent of such memorialized family classics as The Cosby Show or The Brady Bunch.
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He talks as if he's on the radio - which is to say he's fluent, quick-witted and resourceful.
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She was quick-witted and blessed with a prodigious memory.
Times, Sunday Times
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Undemonstrative, quick-witted, alert and intelligent: he has it all.
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He was pertinacious, thorough and, despite the somewhat ponderous brutality of his appearance, he was quick-witted.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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He always seemed to be the first to get his reply in, quick-witted and clearly smart.
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Elizabeth was a different kind of Queen: quick-witted, clever and able to use feminine wiles to get her own way.
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`Intelligent, quick-witted, attractive, and something of an iconoclast, which at her age is right and proper.
A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
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With his brightly coloured breeches, beaky nose and piercing eyes, he must have resembled a loquacious and quick-witted parrot.
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It may be the quick-witted humour and laughing satire that first strike visitors to this show.
Times, Sunday Times
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At one stage, the quick-witted Kenmare contestant looked a certainty to be kicked off the island as he battled with rivals from the opposing team as well as one of his own team players.
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So too in the case of flattery we must observe and be on our guard against wastefulness being called liberality, and cowardliness prudence, and madness quick-wittedness, and meanness frugality, and the amorous man called social and affectionate, and the term manly applied to the passionate and vain man, and the term civil applied to the paltry and mean man.
Plutarch's Morals
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With his brightly coloured breeches, beaky nose and piercing eyes, he must have resembled a loquacious and quick-witted parrot.
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Evan is intelligent and quick-witted but sometimes a little lost in the modern world of speed dating and go-getting career women.
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It's one thing to be smart and quick-witted, but can you back it up?
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She was quick-witted and blessed with a prodigious memory.
Times, Sunday Times
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As for O'Neill, he left with his reputation as a quick-witted sharp operator severely dented.
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Next, the quick-witted Cook of Live To Cook turns to a different language to find a Q fruit: it turns out the fragrant cantaloupe melon is Qawun kantalubi in the Arabic language!
Archive 2007-05-01
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She's quick-witted, scarily focused, even improbably droll.
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By nature they are naturally quick-witted, bold, hasty, quarrelsome and courageous.
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But he is quick-witted and smart.
The Sun
