Crossword-Solution: BONMOT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bonmot | n. | A witty repartee; a jest. |
We have 26 clues for the answer “BONMOT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Words of wit | 1 answer |
| What a quick person is often ready with | 1 answer |
| Snappy quip | 1 answer |
| One may draw a "zing!" | 1 answer |
| An especially fitting expression. | 1 answer |
| Good word across the sea | 1 answer |
| Bit of badinage | 1 answer |
| Comment from a card | 1 answer |
| Words from a wit | 2 answers |
| "Good one!" elicitor | 2 answers |
| Clever quip | 3 answers |
| Clever comment | 4 answers |
| Witty comment | 4 answers |
| Witty comeback | 4 answers |
| Witty bit | 6 answers |
| Witty remark | 6 answers |
| Clever comeback | 7 answers |
| A CLEVER REMARK | 10 answers |
| BIT OF REPARTEE | 11 answers |
| Zinger | 11 answers |
| CLEVER remark | 11 answers |
| Riposte | 12 answers |
| BIT OF WIT | 12 answers |
| Wisecrack | 29 answers |
| Quip | 51 answers |
| Witticism | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with BONMOT (4)
And he said to me the other day, “Now, Lady Bellair, fix your day, and name your party.” I said directly, “General, anybody but Bonmot.” You know Bonmot is his particular friend.’ ‘But surely that is cruel,’ said Henrietta Temple, smiling.
This vexed me; so suddenly recovering my self-possession, I threw out a _bonmot_ in better French than the old dames were mistresses of; whereupon they opened their eyes wide in astonishment, and pampered their long thin noses with a liberal supply of snuff.
From the Baroness's turning from me with a more serious air to talk to some other lady, I perceived that my _bonmot_ bordered closely upon folly; this vexed me still more, and I wished the two old ladies to the devil.
His wit, he says, proves he himself is a miserable player, because good players never make a bonmot upon or during their play.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 33 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).