wit

“I was in awe of his intellect, dazzled by his wit, amazed by his fearlessness and spirit of adventure, besotted by his loving heart, and smitten by his beautiful blue eyes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

No dichotomy better represents Berlant’s razor-sharp, thoroughly tasteful wit, which sits halfway between refined humorist and go-for-broke court jester.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

Daisy Edgar-Jones and George MacKay star in a film that tells its familiar story without the author’s style or wit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The Canadian comedian, writer and producer Fielder is famous for harnessing the power of awkwardness, cringe and deadpan wit to great, if unsettling, comedic effect.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

It was engagingly well-written, with a sense of irony and a nearly wicked wit, and it was strikingly self-aware for a nineteen year old.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

At each of those jobs, Kiffin had to use his wits to make up ground against college football’s historic powerhouses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

One of the most famous episodes in Homer’s poem finds Odysseus and his men facing the Cyclops Polyphemus in his cave, where their struggle becomes a battle of wits: lies, taunts, a drunken ruse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

The trip taught him how to rely on his musical talents and his wits to survive on the road.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

I am reasonably educated, and at 64, I still have most of my wits.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 12, 2026

After a few inhales through the nose and exhales through the mouth, Penelope felt that her wits were, if not directly about her, at least within arm’s reach.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

After Thatcher’s Conservative successor John Major unexpectedly triumphed in the 1992 election, the tabloid boasted: “It’s the Sun wot won it.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

Let’s talk a little bit about wot the violence interrupters are.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2021

There are numerous reasons that the inquiry has finally been ordered but, according to CNN, it was the Badasses wot won it.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 1, 2019

“Wot you ’ave to know about chimney flues,” he was declaring, “is that flues ’as several twists in ’em, cuz they’s attached to uvver flues wot shares one openin’.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2018

“From wot I hear, he was out there, diggen the house foundation, an’ pullen up stones.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

The Utes surrender an average of 76 points per game, which is the wost in the conference.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2011

But this week the wost was yet to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

"That thow wost wel," quod he · "and no wyghte bettere."

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand

Ah fool," quoth she, "wost thou not what it is?

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves

Than seyde he thus, `Almighty Iove in trone, That wost of al this thing the soothfastnesse, 1080 Rewe on my sorwe, or do me deye sone, Or bring Criseyde and me fro this distresse.'

From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

We Are Young, too, is wistful for an era that was already full of wist.

From The Guardian ● May 29, 2013

For He wist not what to answer; for they became sore afraid.

From The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick

A speck, a mist, a shape I wist!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 19th 1893 by Various

But little wist Marie Hamilton, When she rade on the brown, That she was ga'en to Edinburgh town, And a' to be put down.

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

They wist not of her, nor cared, being transferred to other hands, and yet they stood 'twixt her and the precipice.

From The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield

An agent is a paid and witting spy; he formally, sometimes covertly, works for a foreign government.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2025

“I can’t but think of partial replacements as immoral because they involve a witting decision by government agencies to leave residents at continued risk of exposure,” said Lambrinidou.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2023

The problem isn’t that confirmation hearings are too hard on the nominees, who are, after all, witting and willing participants.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022

He was certainly involved, aware and witting of everything that was going on.

From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2016

Harold, "not witting," says the chronicler, "how to escape from this pressing danger," promised all the duke asked of him, reckoning, doubt-less, on disregarding his engagement; and for the moment William asked him nothing more.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 by M. (François) Guizot