nimble-witted

“She joked and laughed...played a lively part in the games, and became very nimble-witted in general conversation.”

He was certainly nimble-witted and hard to trap.

His suggested tongue-in-cheek wording for such a statement from the Institute read: "My cadets are the coolest, they made a jaw-dropping clip and showed that they are audacious and nimble-witted… Our school is the best. But those who would talk nonsense about my cadets will deal with me."

For Nancy Papadopoulos, a nimble-witted Minneapolis divorcee with a year of college, work would not be hard to find.

But the girls were nimble-witted — far cleverer than we doltish lads — and would often confer among themselves and choose one boy, usually the plainest fellow, and then tease him all the way home.