wittily

witty | American Dictionary

witty
adjective
us/ˈwɪt̬·i/
using words in an amusing and intelligent way; full of wit:
a witty remark
I think she’s one of the wittiest comics on television.

Note:

A witty remark is a witticism.

Examples of witty

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It became customary to present definitions before examples and build general results first, relegating concrete applications to witty exercises.
He appears to have been gifted and witty, self-absorbed and impossible in equal measure.
Often, the names were witty puns on the originals.
Suppose there were just one generous person in the world, but billions of witty ones.
Too clever by half - and yet punning is simply putting things together in a witty and unexpected way.
Just because the contributors are 'practitioners', it does not follow that they will automatically be witty or clever.
The book claims to be the first of its kind, and is a witty and erudite guide to the history of a supporting mechanism.
Would that our own had equally witty results !
One can only recommend this acute, insightful and frequently witty volume to all historians, both ' ecclesiastical ' and secular.
The often witty and insightful introduction and coda attest to a meticulous concern with creating textual coherence through the volume as a whole.
There exist a large number of witty alphametics.
And this is so in spite of the fact that the words "witty," "good-looking," and "funny" are all quite vague.
We only have to open a newspaper to find endless puns, assonances, alliterations, and witty (or fixed) similes.
The ghost affords a pretext for cravings which, if illicit and decadent, are also ironic and witty.
This witty and inventive piece had enough ideas and syncopated drive to power a work twice its 13 minutes.
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