clever remark
Example Sentences
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One clever remark read, “My favorite Star Wars memory would have to be the time Disney tried to lay legal claim to every tweet on Twitter that used a particular hashtag.”
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2020
Auber said: "You must not forget that Rochefort would rather sell his soul than lose an occasion to make a clever remark."
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
"Yes, that wasn't a clever remark," said Alexandra.
From The Idiot by Eva M. Martin
“I'm laughing that you should have made a clever remark just now about Smerdyakov's belief in the existence of two saints who could move mountains.”
From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A friend of ours made such a clever remark when he read it.’
From Beasts and Super-Beasts by Saki
