twit
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The “i” in twit was pronounced as an “a.”
From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2025
Nelis renders the professor a pompous and pedantic twit but not a heartless one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
Immediately after elevating himself to self-proclaimed chief twit, Musk shoved out chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, the leader of all things trust and safety.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2022
The fellow from whom Harper rents the house — she describes him as “a very particular type” and “very country” — is a toothy, upper-crusty twit played by Rory Kinnear.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2022
She thought about how he did not give a twit about the future, how he thought about the here and now.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
Unlike in Homer or even “Clash of the Titans,” which showed the gods as toga-clad twits toying with mortal lives like action figures, they have little, if anything, to do in this plot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Maybe, too, you and your family were such twits to her when your son first brought her home that she learned to withdraw as a coping strategy when you're around.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2021
In the song, by Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid, Luker twits her image as a “spoonful of saccharine” but also punctures it.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2021
By combining rapid-fire wordplay, historical japery, the subversion of middle-class mores and the flaying of upper-class twits, Monty Python “took silliness to renaissance levels,” Thompson said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2020
She stalks away, muttering about twits who flaunt regulation.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
At a rally last month in Youngstown, with Vance sitting in the front row, Trump twitted the candidate for his devotion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2022
He twitted Dwight D. Eisenhower for his dullness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2021
But then, haven’t you always wanted to see George R. R. Martin twitted for not having completed his book series?
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2017
For years, despite spending thousands of dollars looking for a cure and being twitted by his friends about his intermittent stupors, he was unable to do anything about his affliction.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then I felt I was so dependent on them–I was twitted of it–that it’s another reason why I ran away.
From The Girl From Tim's Place by Charles Clark Munn
But twitting a playwright for not being Shakespeare is blatantly unfair, so it’s best to leave the rest unquoted.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2017
Before long, the poster boy for “Tory modernization”—and, it emerged, a passionate user of the textspeak “LOL,” which he used to mean “lots of love”—was twitting away himself.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 14, 2016
The triangle always felt like a deliberate twitting of Twilight's similar setup.
From The Verge ● Nov. 18, 2015
When he coined that phrase 60 years ago, New Yorker writer A. J. Liebling was twitting Chicagoans for their obsession with not measuring up to New York.
From Newsweek ● Feb. 27, 2011
Pictures seemed constantly coming to him, like so many mocking Will-o'-the-wisps, flitting before his eyes when they were open, and twitting his worried brain when they were closed.
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Felix Moscheles
