nimble-witted
Example Sentences
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But don’t underestimate Alabado’s Dabney, the nimble-witted maid, who is too dazzlingly resourceful not to make her presence known.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025
He was certainly nimble-witted and hard to trap.
From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2020
For Nancy Papadopoulos, a nimble-witted Minneapolis divorcee with a year of college, work would not be hard to find.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2016
An Irishman, plump and nimble-witted, a poker player and duck hunter, a successful and honest businessman, a philanthropist who gave away several hundred wooden legs*�he was sincerely mourned.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had only to look around him to see that the profession was full of keen-eyed, nimble-witted old-young men who had never attempted to synthesize the life they were supposed to be recording and interpreting.
From The Vision Splendid by Raine, William MacLeod
