witty

• My aunt was a charming companion--witty, full of anecdote, and had read more than most women of her day, especially Shakespeare, who was her favourite author. —  Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
• Some of these Ghat negresses are actually witty, and crack jokes with the grave Touaricks. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
• They were neither profound, nor cultivated, nor witty--some were not even shrewd or acute; but all were pleasant--pleasant in the use of a conversational medium, of which the world has not the equal--a language that has its set form of expression for every social eventuality, and that hits to a nicety every contingency of the "salon;" for it is no more the language of natural people than the essence of the perfumer's shop is the odour of a field flower. —  Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General
• He is witty, as any one may easily be who attacks what we most revere. —  Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886
• We assist at its most brilliant pageants, we hear its superficial, witty, and often empty chatter, we catch whiffs of some of its finer emotions.... The brilliantly sketched personalities stand out delicately and incisively individualised. —  The Dictator

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