wittily

Example Sentences

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In films like “In Fabric” and “The Duke of Burgundy,” he pays homage to fringe genre cinema of the past, while wittily winking at contemporary anxieties.

From New York Times • May 23, 2023

It’s a cliché, oui, but a wittily, knowingly deployed one.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2023

But she wittily captured the changing fortunes of women in the modern world.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2023

That’s one of the wittily loopy loops of “A Strange Loop,” which illuminates with unbridled comic energy the desires, insecurities, aspirations and demons of a young, queer Black man.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2022

"She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything."

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath