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witty ['witi]

a. 富于机智的, 诙谐的

witty
wittier, wittiest

[ adj ]
combining clever conception and facetious expression
<adj.all>
his sermons were unpredictably witty and satirical as well as eloquent

Witty \Wit"ty\, a. [Compar. {Wittier}; superl. {Wittiest}.] [AS.
witig, wittig. See {Wit}, n.]
1. Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious;
clever; cunning. [Obs.] ``The deep-revolving witty
Buckingham.'' --Shak.

2. Especially, possessing wit or humor; good at repartee;
droll; facetious; sometimes, sarcastic; as, a witty
remark, poem, and the like. ``Honeycomb, who was so
unmercifully witty upon the women.'' --Addison.

Syn: Acute; smart; sharp; arch; keen; facetious; amusing;
humorous; satirical; ironical; taunting.

Despite all this, Mr. Icahn can be disarmingly charming and witty.
Imagine my delight, then, to find that this production was no midsummer's nightmare at all but a whimsical and witty rendering of Shakespeare's fairy fantasy.
We are glad to report that Alice doesn't live there any more, that last winsome aberration is succeeded by this gloriously witty tale of love and death.
Mark Baldwin made witty, emotionally sly dances. We have much to celebrate with such creators, and Channel 4's season of mauvais quarts d'heure from international dance-bores - Tights, Camera, Action - was all the more unworthy.
And there is a worry too about McLeish's translation: mostly admirably accessible and witty, it is sometimes so slangy that you feel the production is unnecessarily intent on convincing you that this is not some dusty old classic.
They are also encouraged to write "descriptive, pithy and witty" comments.
Both structures, he says, have been collapsing for the last 20 years. Dr Manis is a witty man who loves an ironic phrase, the more extravagant the better.
Does he really believe that the rich are insulated from the pain of bereavement, of illness, of marital break-up? He describes the rich as 'kindly, witty and urbane'.
He was quite a gentle lad, quiet but witty and a good mimic.
The bitchy, witty society of that time, as recorded by Chips Channon, made fun of him.
In the summer he enters a monastic order in Texas. Anyone expecting a coherent plot, witty dialogue, and perceptive insights is in dreamland.
But her witty address, a mixture of disarming humor and candid advice about not letting careers crowd out family, charmed the women graduates, who gave a tumultuous welcome to both Mrs. Bush and Raisa Gorbachev.
To prove it we are given this example of their witty folk wisdom: 'If your wife tells you to throw yourself out of the window, pray God it's a low one'.
He is also, like Donne, witty and obscene.
Peter Coleman-Wright (the dashingly sardonic Giovanni) and Arwel Huw Morgan (the wrily witty Leporello), veterans of the previous revival, play to and with each other in excellently knowing fashion.
They are by turns witty and tragic, topical and metaphysical, impressively worldly and endearingly naive.
Aided by a witty script by Jeffrey Price and Peter Seaman, Zemeckis retains control throughout what must have been an agonizingly complicated production.
How it is possible to stage Saint-Saens' witty, charming, infinitely felicitous score without a single atom of its many virtues rubbing off on to the dance, I do not know, but Mr Araiz has succeeded.
He is witty, twists difficult questions to his advantage, and convincingly states the case for the east Germans.
Spy magazine, which takes ad hominem attacks to witty new lows, uses pseudonyms on two regular columns.
A graceful, witty presence in the House, Mr. Udall's stature in Congress was only enhanced by his personal losses, first as a candidate for the leadership and later the presidency.
The score, under Jonathan Higgins, is no less witty.
"He was really an amazing, witty man, who held every elected office from city councilor to mayor to state legislator, governor, vice president and president.
Ms. Broun has made a prissy face at LeWitt's witty, mildly naughty tribute to an earlier artist.
Such a character is in perfect contrast to the calmly eccentric elegance of Helen Barrow, the witty and luscious Larissa McGoldrick, the lyrical fervour of Emma Diamond or the plush power of Jenifer Weaver.
The difference is how we get there." Andrew Rivers is a bright, witty 10-year-old whose 2-foot-11-inch frame is so brittle he breaks like a china doll.
He said, 'I will admit that I knew it was witty, I knew it was well constructed and I also knew it would be a success.'
Only with a needless sub-plot involving tomboy Thora Birch and her wayward father does the film go over the top. A very different form of sentimentality is at work in Autobus, a witty and anarchic look at youthful alienation, French style.
Hastings _ outspoken, witty and a dynamic speaker _ almost never evokes a neutral reaction from those around him, and the latest events were no exception.
At night he reads the 'red boxes' of official documents in bed, scribbling witty - sometimes deeply undiplomatic - asides in the margins. In spite of the jesting, he does not like Euro-sceptics' charges that he is 'a Euro-freak'.

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