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
The murder of an obscure little man in a Manhattan lodging house develops into an affair with international ramifications, all followed to their surprising end by sharp-eyed and nimble-witted News Photographer Gantt.
From Time Magazine Archive
There must come a day when even the most nimble-witted father has to reply, "I don't know."
From Seeing Things at Night by Broun, Heywood
