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be sharp-witted
adjective
Clever, keen of intellect, swift of thought.
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This will not be mistaken for a variation on "The View," on ABC, which has been dedicated to the notion that a woman's talk show can be sharp-witted and sophisticated.
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Both pieces are sharp-witted, funny and lively.
He is sharp-witted but cannot make her euro policies his main line of attack.
Sadler (whose story is the least delineated) is sharp-witted, agile, and funny.
Our guide, Semphiwe, was sharp-witted and sharp-tongued, giving us all names in Zulu or Xhosa and ribbing us if we couldn't pronounce them properly.
All seven of the Glass children are sharp-witted intellectuals whose perspicacity was honed by regular appearances on a popular radio show "It's a Wise Child"; they're obsessed with learning and seem to have swallowed the entire philosophical canon of both east and west.
They're sharp-witted and their sense of humour is on it".
Linus is, of course, the founder of the Linux kernel, but he also represents the soul of open source: open without being dogmatic, collaborative while still being sharp-witted and sharp-elbowed, and quality and performance above all.
Their personas are sharp-witted and command attention and that's the point.
He compares her to one of Coronation Streets original characters Minnie Caldwell (Margot Bryant), as she is "warm and comforting loves cats and has had her share of lodgers"; however, Little notes that "while Minnie wandered through life in a haze, Betty is sharp-witted, blessed with insight and wisdom".
She was born in Edinburgh in 1749, and was a Scottish Tory political hostess who was shrewd, sharp-witted and humorous but good-natured.
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