Sample sentences for WITTICISM

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Definition

a clever, funny remark

Winston Churchill was well-known for his witticisms.

Another fabulous witticism from Olaf and the place erupted in haw, haw, haws and "What did he says?"
Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna

witticism = a clever, funny remark

By the very nature of a witticism, one is given very little time to assess its various possible repercussions before one is called to give voice to it,
Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day

witticism = a clever, funny remark

Such rumors inevitably provoked anti-ecumenism riots and, of course, inspired new witticisms.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
Peter has amazing presence of mind in the face of these so-called witticisms.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
He laughed at her witticism, and took her to see the parade of floats from the balcony of the ice cream shop.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
He laughs, pleased with this witticism.
Samuel Beckett -- Waiting for Godot
Lord Baelish is a most amusing man, but one does not fight a war with witticisms.
George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
He sat quietly, with a sardonic expression on his gaunt face, and spoke only when the opportunity occurred to throw in a witticism.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
I don't swim without a chair," the cadet said, showing the chipped tooth as he smiled at his own witticism.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
You know that your witticisms are not witty, but you are evidently well satisfied with their literary value.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Notes from the Underground
This was a savage witticism the men had, which Jurgis had to have explained to him.
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
Unless you can cut this fog with your next witticism, keep it to yourself.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
I wasn't sure what frightened me more, the climb itself or the notion of being seen as a ghost; but I had no time for comforting witticisms, even to myself.
Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
The witticism delights him and he bursts into a shrill cackle.
Eugene O'Neill -- The Iceman Cometh
Xavier endured these witticisms silently.
Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
Once in a while, after some witticism, he would look down, and his eyes would meet hers.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
My witticisms "run like wildfire through the court".
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
And, in fact, Bilibin's witticisms were hawked about in the Viennese drawing rooms and often had an influence on matters considered important.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
JEAN: Your witticisms are not very inspired.
Eugene Ionesco -- Rhinoceros

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