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  • adjective Alternative spelling of quick-witted.

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quick +‎ witted

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Examples

  • Lets find a new place to converse, said quickwitted Goosevort.

    Mr Goosevort Ivan R. 2011

  • The landscape is bleak, the people they accost are ignorant and menacing, though feeble before the quickwitted and well-armed officers.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • The landscape is bleak, the people they accost are ignorant and menacing, though feeble before the quickwitted and well-armed officers.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • The landscape is bleak, the people they accost are ignorant and menacing, though feeble before the quickwitted and well-armed officers.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • A quickwitted throwback to old Warner Bros. critter capers, "Presto" stars pompous stage magician Presto DiGiotagione, a headliner whose one gag is pulling a rabbit out of his hat.

    One Funny Appetizer 2008

  • The quickwitted, though fantastic Provencaux, soon found out the heaviness of his intellect, and the extent of his good-nature, and amused themselves at his expense, by ironical compliments and well-veiled raillery.

    Anne of Geierstein 2008

  • Fairy perceiving that his intellect was eminent and bright, and his natural talents quickwitted, and apprehending lest the decrees of heaven should be divulged, hastily closed the Book of Record, and addressed herself to Pao-yü.

    Hung Lou Meng 2003

  • "You're quickwitted to know me for a 'tec, if I do say so, miss."

    The Serpent's Shadow Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • He never got past the eighth grade, but he was quickwitted and bright.

    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994

  • He never got past the eighth grade, but he was quickwitted and bright.

    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994

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