All 3 Uses of
witticism
in
Notes from the Underground
- You know that your witticisms are not witty, but you are evidently well satisfied with their literary value.†
Chpt 1.11 *
- I hated the abrupt self-confident tone of his voice, his admiration of his own witticisms, which were often frightfully stupid, though he was bold in his language; I hated his handsome, but stupid face (for which I would, however, have gladly exchanged my intelligent one), and the free-and-easy military manners in fashion in the "'forties."†
Chpt 2.3
- I had imagined, on the contrary, that on coming in he would at once break into his habitual thin, shrill laugh and fall to making his insipid jokes and witticisms.†
Chpt 2.4
Definition:
a clever, funny remark