QUICK-WITTED


Meaning of QUICK-WITTED in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Brady is quick-witted and articulate.

John was always so quick-witted that I used to think he would have made a good secret agent.

Throughout a lifetime of public service, he proved himself a quick-witted negotiator.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

The quick-witted Despina is a delightful character, the archetypal soubrette, just like Adèle in Die Fledermaus.

The quick-witted will have gone instantly to the heart of the problem: what mysterious attribute distinguishes sport from games?

The female characters, too, are made of sterner stuff than the quick-witted schemers of Figaro.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.