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witticism

[wit-uh-siz-uhm] / ˈwɪt əˌsɪz əm /


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That kind of anguished, not-funny witticism is another commonplace of the American educated classes: OMG, what has happened to this country?

From Salon • May 31, 2026

The samples offered are purple and banal, hardly living up to Gabriel García Márquez’s witticism about similar fabrications.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2024

“It’s a witticism, which is fine as a witticism,” Muñoz Machado told Spanish news agency EFE.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 26, 2023

“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” is a witticism attributed frequently but inaccurately to the great 20th-century British economist John Maynard Keynes.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2020

Be that as it may, since that first witticism concerning the gypsies, I have not been able to think of other such witticisms quickly enough.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro




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