Crossword-Solution: WITTICISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Witticism | n. | A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit. |
We have 31 clues for the answer “WITTICISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ribbing | 6 answers |
| play upon words | 9 answers |
| Pun | 10 answers |
| CLEVER remark | 11 answers |
| mot | 13 answers |
| BACK answer | 15 answers |
| Bon mot | 16 answers |
| Shenanigan | 16 answers |
| Jape | 17 answers |
| Repartee | 18 answers |
| Badinage | 26 answers |
| Wisecrack | 29 answers |
| Horseplay | 32 answers |
| Sally | 35 answers |
| merriness | 39 answers |
| Gibe | 42 answers |
| snigger | 45 answers |
| Kidding! | 47 answers |
| Titter | 47 answers |
| esprit | 49 answers |
| Exultation | 50 answers |
| Quip | 51 answers |
| Banter | 53 answers |
| chortle | 54 answers |
| chuckle | 55 answers |
| Raillery | 55 answers |
| Soul | 59 answers |
| Prank | 59 answers |
| Lightness | 66 answers |
| Joke | 71 answers |
| Crack | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WITTICISM (5)
The witticism which will inspire this evening is as yet in Mr Todd’s pretty reticent intellect, or locked in the jewelled bosoms of our city’s gayest leaders; but there is talk of a pretty parody of the simple manners and customs at the other end of Society’s scale.
The company shouted, and old Broderson, believing he had somehow accomplished a witticism, chuckled in his beard, wagging his head.
She sees, and exults in your giddiness; she sees and smiles; then presently, with a sudden movement, she lays her blushing fingers upon your arm, and cries out, “Yumourdjak!” (Plague! meaning, “there is a present of the plague for you!”) This is her notion of a witticism.
Taking a man’s nightcap from his brow by violent means, and adjusting it on the head of an unknown gentleman, of dirty exterior, however ingenious a witticism in itself, is unquestionably one of those which come under the denomination of practical jokes.
All the gravitations of human nature were constantly tending to topple it over, and it could be maintained upright, or rather upwrong (if you will pardon the feeble witticism), by an elaborate system of constantly renewed props and buttresses and guy-ropes in the form of laws.
Quotes with WITTICISM (3)
Never use naughtiness in mixed company, unless your witticism is so funny that your audience will shoot tears of happiness out of their eyes with a velocity sufficient to powerwash a small bus. Any joke that falls short of that standard will make you lose respect in the eyes of everyone except your best friends, who, as you know, lost respect for you long ago.
A joke is a witticism or play on words that’s meant to be funny. I say ‘meant to be’ because most jokes aren’t funny. They range between mildly amusing and grimace-inducingly annoying.
Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year-olds working ninety hours a week to deliver you that kind of top-quality witticism? There are boy bands with more original material.