[ adv ] in a witty manner <adv.all> he would wittily chime into our conversation
Wittily \Wit"ti*ly\, adv. In a witty manner; wisely; ingeniously; artfully; with wit; with a delicate turn or phrase, or with an ingenious association of ideas.
Who his own harm so wittily contrives. --Dryden.
The deadly Maoist Messages keep swerving off course, confused by the sparkling flakes of comedy, character detail and wittily, winningly observed social flux. Bills sent to the wrong address are the subject of the week's two Hollywood films.
He always makes much of Shaw's dominant symbols: most wittily in the Covent Garden scenes, where the old fruit and vegetable market stands right before the distant and tilted Opera House.
In interviews, rambling on wittily in the hour before he went to see his psychiatrist, Mr. Roth also managed to insert enough random obscenity so as to be unquotable altogether in a family magazine.
I believe he simply kept his head down in difficult and gloomy times. Some wonderful things came out of this period, all as formally lively and wittily inventive as ever, sometimes even positively light-hearted.
Finally came "Appendix" (1983) by Pawel Szymanski, a Polish post-minimalist who wittily combined a piccolo soloist with an elephantine polka and a Mahlerian trombone line.
This blunt social comedy is treated dependably and wittily by The Birmingham Rep in a production which balances the finesse and the force of Brighouse's message. The play teems with Brighouse's own family connections and with familiar Lancashire life.